Stuff you need to know, 1.15.24

“Budget, guns expected to dominate discussions during 30-day session”
by Daniel J. Chacón, Santa Fe New Mexican; reposted in NM Political Report
January 14, 2024

The focus of the 2024 New Mexico legislative session, which starts Tuesday, will be on passing a budget amid disagreements, even among majority Democrats, about how Democratic governor Michelle Lujan Grisham has proposed to allocate record revenues when revenue growth is expected to slow in the future. Also likely to trigger controversy is the governor’s proposed gun control legislation, said to be the largest and most comprehensive public safety package in the state’s history.

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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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