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Just in time for the weekend, a winter storm with
to move into New Mexico.
Tax Secretary Quits Amidst Criminal Probe
Gov. Susana Martinez
of Tax and Revenue Secretary Demesia Padilla on Thursday after agents with the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office served search warrants on her home and office. Joe Monahan has analysis and
from the state’s latest political scandal.
Permanent Funds Could Be Used to Expand Childhood Education
Two Democrat lawmakers want voters to
“to allow the state to draw about $140 million a year from the nearly $15 billion Land Grand Permanent Fund to expand early childhood education.”
A new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities characterizes New Mexico as having
in the nation.
According to the report, the richest 5 percent of New Mexican households receive 19 percent of the state’s income, even when excluding capital gains. Those same households have average incomes five times as large as the middle 20 percent of households and 15 times as large as the bottom 20 percent of households.
Deborah Baker reports that a proposal to
will be reintroduced at the Roundhouse. Rep. Alonzo Baldonado, R-Los Lunas, says the idea behind the “Ban the Box” measure is aimed at helping people who’ve served their debt to society and to give them “a fair shake.”
After stumbling out of the gate early in the football season, the University of New Mexico Lobos “hope to put an exclamation point on
in program history with a win at the 11th annual Gildan New Mexico Bowl on Saturday.”
Santa Fe Reporter