Courtesy, FEMA
The Federal Emergency Management Agency has quietly appointed an interim director of a multi-billion-dollar compensation fund for victims ofNew Mexico’s largest wildfire.
State of the Union
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Focusing on political victories during his State of the Union address, Trump gave himself and Republicans high marks while scolding Democrats for their stances on the economy and immigration.
Gabriela Campos
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Santa Fe New Mexican
The 68 Navajo students at Lybrook bring their district hundreds of thousands of dollars in federal funding each year, — $381,000 in fiscal year 2025 — money meant to help Indigenous students. Families and school staff believe the money received for Lybrook students is instead going to other schools in the district, whose student populations are almost entirely non-Native.
Shuguang Leng et. al.
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Shuguang Leng
Danielle Prokop
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Source New Mexico
Let's Talk New Mexico
Morgan Lee
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AP
On the next Let’s Talk New Mexico we’ll discuss how this was the last regular session under Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and how her legislative priorities compared to what passed. We’ll also talk about what laws passed, including the first universal child care program in the country, medical malpractice reform, and immigration policy that blocks local ICE detention centers.
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Just one day after it was created by the state legislature, the "Epstein Truth Commission” met for the first time this morning. The Commission announced the beginning of an investigation into illegal activity at sex offender Jeffrey Epstein’s former Zorro ranch outside of Santa Fe. The commission will issue subpoenas and compel testimony if necessary to get the “full picture” of what happened on the nearly 10,000 acres of remote high desert. -
Lawmakers stripped final version of House Bill 99 of Senate Judiciary amendments.
