Stuff you need to know, 1.27.23

“The New Mexico Voting Rights Act: What’s in and what’s out”
by Austin Fisher, Source NM
January 27, 2023

A sprawling proposal to expand or return the right to vote to more New Mexicans could finally become a reality this session after years of legislative and community effort.

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“Legislative proposal aims to amplify NM arts economy”
by Dan McKay, Albuquerque Journal
January 26, 2023

New Mexico would establish a new economic development agency—backed by $67 million in state funds—to support artists and creative entrepreneurs under legislation introduced at the Roundhouse.

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“Guns Bills Make the Rounds at the Roundhouse”
Staff, Santa Fe New Mexican, republished in The Paper
January 25, 2023

A bill that would hold adults criminally responsible if children or teens accessed their firearms cleared its first hurdle Tuesday in the legislature.

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Diana Tittle
Diana Tittle

Diana Tittle, a member of the board of Sierra County Public-Interest Journalism Project, was the editor of the Sierra County Sun, the Citizen's precursor. A former resident of Truth or Consequences who now lives part-time in northern New Mexico, she spent her 42-year professional career in Cleveland, Ohio, where she worked as a newspaper reporter, magazine writer and editor, book author and publisher and publishing consultant. She is the recipient of a Cleveland Arts Prize for Literature.

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