A win by two or more challengers would give women first-ever …
Sep 19, 2018 · The notion struck Megan Duffy at an event she attended with several other women — and it struck her hard. It was Aug. 18. The gathering marked the anniversary of a seismic change to the U.S. Constitution: Passage of the 19th Amendment, more commonly known as women’s suffrage. “Women have only been able to vote […]
Boarding school history underpins Yazzie Martinez findings on …
Aug 19, 2021 · They’re supported by the 2018 Yazzie/Martinez v. State of New Mexico court ruling that referenced the Indian boarding school system as an underlying factor in poor educational outcomes among Native students. In 2018, then-chairman of the All Pueblo Council of Governors, Edward Paul Torres, bluntly described the importance of the moment to a ...
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Scaled back probation, parole reforms advancing in Legislature
Feb 5, 2020 · By Jeff Proctor, New Mexico In Depth | February 5, 2020. A legislative effort to reform parts of New Mexico’s probation and parole systems is limping along as lawmakers near the halfway mark of this year’s 30-day session. House Bill 263, with a large group of sponsors from both parties, is meant primarily to decrease the number of people on ...
Remembering the largest radioactive spill in U.S. history
Jul 7, 2014 · But the largest spill of radioactive material in the United States happened three and half months after Three Mile Island and several thousands of miles west of Pennsylvania. July 16 will mark the 35th anniversary of the day in 1979 when a dam on the Navajo Nation near Church Rock, N.M., broke at an evaporation pond, releasing “94 million ...
Report identifying nonviolent offenders eligible for release sits on ...
Apr 16, 2020 · Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham last week took a step toward releasing prisoners to blunt the threat of an outbreak of the new coronavirus in New Mexico’s 11 prisons. The first-term, Democratic governor signed a three-page executive order directing her Corrections Department secretary to release nonviolent inmates who have 30 days or less on their sentences […]
How the rise of copper reveals clean energy’s dark side
Nov 9, 2021 · Chris Berry, an independent analyst focused on energy metals, said the push for clean energy is a big reason. The demand for copper is estimated to grow by 350 percent by 2050 if the world moves towards clean energy. Its price nearly doubled from 2019 to 2020 in the US. That’s partly because copper’s role in the transition to clean energy ...
Funding the Future: An early education trust fund
The Legislative Finance Committee on Dec. 9 got an updated forecast of expected revenue for 2020, with the state expecting a $797 million surplus. That’s down from $907 million in “new money” forecast in August, but still a large chunk of money to divvy out for things like education, infrastructure and state agencies. How it would work.
Redistricting determines the future of New Mexicans and the 112 members of. cost to taxpayers. data-driven analysis. described redistricting as “notoriously opaque and politically-tainted in many. two federal rules: strength of ethnic and racial minorities by “packing” them all into one district.
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