This reprint of Michael Benanav's article in Searthlight New Mexico describes not just the electronic protection of your vote but all the ways in which the state secures the legitimacy of the elections. Re-publication is done through a Creative Commons licence.
Republication of article by "Capital & Main" in New Mexico Political Report, September 12, 2024. Its topic is the wastewater produced in fracking for gas and oil operations in New Mexico: its toxicity, the earthquakes produced by its injection into the ground, and the proposal to reuse it.
One of the consequences of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision is the lack of abortion care training for medical residents training to become OB-GYN doctors in states where abortion care is banned. This is a republication of an article by Susan Dunlap in New Mexico Political Report, September 11,2024.
In New Mexico, horse racetracks have become centers of political power. This is a republication of a September 11 article by Noah Raess and Joshua Bowling in Searchlight New Mexico.
Attorneys for the state say that landowners are refusing to comply with a 2022 NM Supreme Court ruling allowing public access to rivers and streams. Republication of article by Danielle Prokop, of Source NM, September 6, 2024.
The funds for the Citizen are down to the last few hundred dollars, enough to get us to October. But we hope readers will donate enough to get us through all of next year.
Over 100 million Americans are saddled with medical debt. The Patient Debt Relief Act introduced by Sierra County's Democratic congressman Gabe Vasquez could, if it becomes law, help to alleviate their struggles.
All New Mexico waterways have a public easement. Why, then, has a private landowner placed fencing across Percha Creek near Kingston to restrict human and wildlife access and what can be done about it?
A high-profile New Mexican and IVF dad speaks out against the Republican presidential ticket's "chilling" plan to deny infertile people to access to IVF technology.
Will the New Mexico Legislature's acrimonious special session called by Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham affect legislative races in the general election this fall?
Gabe Vasquez, who represents Sierra County in the U.S. House, joins a bipartisan effort to appropriate more resources for fentanyl intradiction at the border.
