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New Mexico lawmakers among beneficiaries of relief grants
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Direct grants to small businesses and nonprofit organizations that are a hallmark of New Mexico's coronavirus relief effort have been awarded to several state legislators as well as enterprises that have sued the state over Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's aggressive public health...
New Mexico governor signs bill to fund legislature, security
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has signed the first bill of the 2021 legislative session, which funds legislative operations in the state capitol, including an unprecedented amount of security spending in the wake of the Jan. 6 insurrection in Washington D.C. House Bill 1...
New Mexico universities feel pinch of pandemic
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — There are more freshman enrolled at the University of New Mexico than the previous two years and enrollment for first-time students at New Mexico State University is holding steady, but officials acknowledged Thursday that they're concerned about overall enrollment declines amid...
New Mexico college teams finally returning home
PHOENIX (AP) — New Mexico State relocated to Arizona in an attempt to play a basketball season. Restrictions in the Aggies' home state made it impossible for them to even practice there, so they packed up and moved into a Phoenix resort. The pandemic had other plans. Hamstrung by COVID-19 issues inside and...
How education funding could change in New Mexico
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — The New Mexico Legislature is expected to increase near-term education funding and pursue long-term reforms that will change how schools are funded. Education accounts for about half of the approximately $7 billion in general funds that lawmakers will haggle over during the 60-day...
New Mexico lawmakers look for solutions to hobbled economy
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico lawmakers confronted daunting challenges as they began a 60-day session Tuesday amid an unrelenting coronavirus pandemic and concerns of violence at a Statehouse guarded by troops and encircled by fencing, barricades and mobile security cameras. Proposals aimed at reviving...
Officials urge precautions as virus hospitalizations decline
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A recent decrease in statewide COVID-19 hospitalizations is not enough to ease up on mask wearing, social distancing or other measures aimed at curbing spread, top officials with New Mexico’s largest health care providers said Tuesday. The number of people hospitalized in...
New Mexico governor postpones annual address to Legislature
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham has delayed indefinitely her annual State of the State address amid the dangers and logistical challenges of the coronavirus pandemic. Lujan Grisham spokeswoman Nora Meyers Sackett says the speech will not take place at the opening of the...
Gov. Lujan Grisham not planning to attend Biden inauguration
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M (AP) — New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham will not be attending President-elect Joe Biden's inauguration in Washington on Wednesday. Lujan Grisham's office told KOB-TV i n Albuquerque that the Democratic governor does not plan to attend the ceremony at the U.S. Capitol. Washington,...
New Mexico seeks answers on federal rollout of vaccine doses
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico officials said Friday that they were disappointed to learn that the state may not get as many vaccine doses as promised by the federal government just days ago. New Mexico is not alone as uncertainty over the pace of federal COVID-19 vaccine allotments has triggering...
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