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    • McCarthy loses his gavel in unprecedented vote
      By Nicole Maxwell | 13 hours ago

      The U.S. House of Representatives voted to remove Kevin McCarthy from his position as Speaker of the House on Tuesday.

    • ‘State of chaos’: New Mexico’s child welfare crisis is worse, monitors say
      By Searchlight New Mexico | October 3, 2023

      By Ed Williams, Searchlight New Mexico New Mexico’s child welfare system has devolved into a “state of chaos,” leaving foster children in dismaying and dangerous conditions, according to a scathing assessment from independent monitors.  “The situation is worse than last year, deteriorating, and requires effective immediate action to protect children’s safety,” the monitors wrote in a Sept.

    • Legislative Newsletter: The government shutdown that almost was
      By Nicole Maxwell | October 2, 2023

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    • New law leads to confusion over IPRA while some inmate hearings hang in the balance
      By Susan Dunlap | October 2, 2023

      A new law that provides opportunity for adults who were sentenced as children to decades in prison to have a parole hearing after a certain length of time, depending on the severity of the crime, has inadvertently led to some disagreement over public records requests.

    • Superintendent of Insurance discusses challenges, priorities during interim committee meeting
      By Susan Dunlap | September 29, 2023

      New Mexico’s Superintendent of Insurance Alice T. Kane identified some issues for her office to work on as she moves forward in her new position as the top insurance regulator in the state during her presentation to the interim Legislative Courts, Corrections and Justice Committee on Thursday.

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    • Vasquez votes against two bills, cites GOP attacks on repro rights, LGBTQ+ service members

      U.S. House of Rep. Gabe Vasquez, a Democrat representing the second congressional district, joined the two other New Mexico Democrats in the House to vote against the Department of Defense Appropriations Act and the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act.

    • Government shutdown prevented following 11th hour vote

      Legislation passed on Saturday provided government funding for 45 more days, preventing a government shutdown that appeared imminent on Friday.  President Joe Biden signed the legislation into law on Saturday.

    About Laura Paskus

    Laura Paskus has been writing about New Mexico’s natural resources and communities since 2002, as an assistant editor of High Country News, a radio producer at KUNM-FM, managing editor of Tribal College Journal and a freelancer for a variety of publications including the Santa Fe Reporter, New Mexico In Depth and Indian Country Today. Her work has also appeared in Al Jazeera America, Ms. Magazine, National Geographic Online, The Nature Conservancy Magazine, The Progressive, Columbia Journalism Review, The Mountain Gazette, Audubon and Orion. She's a correspondent for New Mexico In Focus and a graduate student in the University of New Mexico’s Geography and Environmental Studies Department.

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