Adrian Gomez

In the waning minutes of the 2024 legislative session, the Senate by voice vote concurred with the amended version of Senate Bill 239. The Lottery and Opportunity Scholarship Changes, sponsored by Sen. Siah Correa Hemphill (D-Catron, Grant and Socorro) and George Muñoz (D-Cibola, McKinley and San Juan), makes important changes to the scholarship requirements that […]

The Senate voted 36-0 this morning to make charter school facility funding more predictable, sending House Bill 207 to the governor with unanimous support. As Sen. Antonio Maestas (D-Bernalillo) summed it up on the floor, the bill changes the “may” in statute to a “shall” because “bankers freak out on ‘may,’ so this makes it

The $10.2 billion budget was developed by the Legislative Finance Committee (LFC) with an eye on the future possibility that by the end of the decade, oil and gas production in New Mexico may flatten and begin a gradual decline. With the knowledge that there is no industry that can generate the same kind of

From the Chamber’s standpoint, the session was a successful legislative session. At the same time, the prevailing philosophy in both the House and Senate leans decidedly toward an agenda that favors ever greater spending on governmental programs. Two dynamics continue in the Legislature: Having relatively few business voices leads to an incredibly large number of

Following three hours of intense debate today, the House of Representatives defeated legislation (Senate Bill 3) that would have imposed a new tax on employers and employees to create and finance a broad and burdensome family and medical leave mandate in New Mexico. The legislation failed by a vote 34-36, with 11 Democrats joining Republicans

Goodwill Industries of New Mexico (GINM) is blazing the sustainability trail with its purchase of two Freightliner eCascadia semi-tractors. The electric tractors are 100% electric with zero carbon emissions – and the first of their kind in New Mexico. “Environmental sustainability has long been part of the mission of our organization,” remarked Shauna Kastle, CEO and President of Goodwill