MLK Commission Investigated
Rick Nathanson reports the NM State Martin Luther King, Jr. Commission is being investigated by the attorney general’s office. The group’s
on Tuesday a month after its executive director and board came under scrutiny for approving a no-bid contract.
Less than a year after he resigned from the Legislature, former state Senator
is under investigation by the State Land Office for allowing two men to illegally remove sandstone boulders off grazing land he leases from the agency.
Milan Simonich reports lawmakers want “to prohibit New Mexico jails and prisons from placing inmates 18 and younger in solitary confinement” and
with “a serious mental illness” in isolation.
Steve Terrell has
about an accused cop killer who got a plea deal from prosecutors while the governor was a district attorney.
For the second consecutive month, New Mexico has the highest unemployment rate in the nation at
. And Sal Christ reports
may have hit New Mexico operations harder than originally thought.
Doctors, surgeons, dentists and nuclear engineers in New Mexico, who are still employed,
, according to US News & World Report.
A new behavioral health business plan aimed at helping providers serve mentally ill residents suggests crisis response teams and intensive case management services be the
in Bernalillo County.
"Big Pharma must be getting seriously worried by the results of a
conducted by the Centre for Addictions Research of BC." 420 Magazine reports that medpot patients reduce their use of opioids and other prescription drugs.
A group of nuns who grow marijuana to make salves in Merced, Calif., are
to try and block a city ordinance that would ban their business.
SFR’s Thomas Ragan takes a look a legislation that proposes legalizing hemp farming in New Mexico, which has been
.
Sen. Cisco McSorley’s Senate Bill 3 ... seeks to establish a research and development fund that would operate under the auspices of New Mexico State University and be licensed and monitored by the state Agriculture Department.
It’s pretty much identical legislation to a bill he floated last year, SB 94. And there’s no indication either way from the governor’s office if she’s changed her mind on the idea.
The Associated Press reports, “More than 140 square miles of overgrown, fire-prone areas around New Mexico have been thinned over the last several years, but
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