Organizations concerned with the civil rights of vulnerable New Mexicans have asked Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham to halt next week's special legislative session called to address public safety. Why is she resisting the request?
The New Mexico Health Care Authority, which began operations yesterday, is meant to streamline the state’s health care system, expanding access to more residents. Plus: other bills aimed at improving governmental programs that went into effect on July 1.
This series of events happening in Kingston this coming weekend were meant to be included in the previous posting. Please join the folks in Kingston and the surrounding communities for their Gila Wilderness Centennial festivities.
A Senate bill to extend the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (RECA) to cover New Mexican downwinders and victims in other states hits a familiar roadblock that threatens to kill RECA protections altogether.
There are many places in this country we call home, where one can easily slip into being a community member of the land instead of the consumer. It is a refreshing reminder to escape the keep out culture of urban living and rejoice in such a wild place, the Catwalk.
The proposed use of so-called "produced water" for agriculture and industrial purposes in New Mexico is at odds with the world health community's growing concern about the impact of pollution on children.
The Sierra County Board of Commissioners passed a resolution to create an Arroyo Flood District. A petition was presented to the District Court and a hearing scheduled so that the question of forming the flood district and names of candidates for the board can be on the ballot in November.
In a head-spinning cover story about Donald Trump's dreams of an imperial presidency, Time magazine reports that the biggest mistake Trump says he made in his first term was to be too nice. Mass immigrant deportations and judicial retribution for political opponents and others who he believes have wronged him are at the top of his to-do list, should he win a second term.
Recent studies finding "forever" chemicals and plutonium in New Mexico's rivers and groundwaters indicate that our water pollution problem has reached crisis proportions.
The federal government now has new tools to protect public lands and cultural treasurers from depredation. The New Mexico Legislature will again consider unpassed crime bills at a special legislative session to be held in July.
