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Stuff you need to know, 12.8.23

“Senators call removal of RECA from NDAA as ‘major betrayal’ and ‘injustice’”
by Hannah Grover, NM Political Report
by December 8, 2023

While the U.S. Senate previously passed legislation advocated by New Mexico Senator Ben Ray Lujan to expand the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to finally include New Mexican “downwinders,” the expansion did not make it through the negotiation process with the U.S. House and into the National Defense Authorization Act conference report that will now go to the House and Senate for passage.

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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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