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Untangling the policies and politics of New Mexico's medical malpractice law

Legislature looking at changes to 2021 law designed to help doctors

Published: Saturday, February 4th, 2023 at 8:02PM
Updated: Sunday, February 5th, 2023 at 12:02AM

Gov't transparency organization adds new members

Two local journalists join the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government's board

Published: Saturday, February 4th, 2023 at 9:51PM
Updated: Sunday, February 5th, 2023 at 12:02AM

Bill seeks to stanch rise of organized retail crime

'We can’t operate like this,' business owner, robbery victim says. 'People have just had it.'

Published: Friday, February 3rd, 2023 at 6:03PM
Updated: Friday, February 3rd, 2023 at 10:08PM

A New Mexico deputy education secretary has resigned. She was only on the job for two weeks.

Jacquelyn Archuleta-Staehlin steps down a week after the PED announced her appointment, and amid questions about whether she was a good fit

Friday, February 3rd, 2023 at 9:55PM

As New Mexico mandates state workers go back to the office, some say they plan to leave

About two-thirds of the state's nearly 17,000 rank-and-file employees were already back in the office full-time as of the start of this year.

Wednesday, February 1st, 2023 at 7:37PM

Alec Baldwin and armorer charged with involuntary manslaughter in 'Rust' shooting

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed told authorities Alec Baldwin had failed to attend required firearms training during the filming of “Rust,” so she had requested an hourlong firearms training with the movie star,...

Published: Tuesday, January 31st, 2023 at 1:02PM
Updated: Tuesday, January 31st, 2023 at 7:15PM

New NM health secretary learning on the job after career ‘reset’

Patrick Allen heads a key agency on the front lines of the state’s pandemic response, after leaving behind a lengthy state government career in Oregon

Published: Saturday, January 28th, 2023 at 10:53PM
Updated: Sunday, January 29th, 2023 at 12:05AM

New Mexico bill would ban contracts for migration detention

Recently introduced bill could unwind contractual arrangements at Otero County Processing Center in Chaparral

Published: Saturday, January 28th, 2023 at 10:15PM
Updated: Sunday, January 29th, 2023 at 12:05AM

Native American leaders: Educational trust fund will be key

Native American leaders said creating a special $50 million trust fund to help finance educational p ...

Published: Saturday, January 28th, 2023 at 10:17PM
Updated: Sunday, January 29th, 2023 at 12:05AM

NM lawmakers scrutinize pretrial release system

Sides clash over Arnold Tool, used to assess defendants' flight risk

Published: Friday, January 27th, 2023 at 7:17PM
Updated: Friday, January 27th, 2023 at 10:11PM

Santa Fe Indian School's new football coach Bill Moon talks to his players after practice at the school August 11. (Eddie Moore/ Albuquerque Journal)

Damian Herrera sits with his attorneys during his trail in First District Court Thursday August 12, 2021.

Members of Manuel Serrano's family pray together outside the Santa Fe Courthouse after a jury found Damian Herrera guilty. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

Kate Tomkins, a second grade teacher at Carlos Gilbert Elementary School, reads a book to her students. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

From left, Michael Messner, Bushrod Lake and Pam Gilchrist, all with Veterans For Peace, protest in April near a downtown building LANL plans to use for its expansion into Santa Fe. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

The city of Santa Fe’s council chambers used to fill up when there was a topic of public interest. But, for the past year, the public has had to attend council meetings virtually, which could limit public participation. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Students in a fourth-grade class at El Dorado Community School near Santa Fe are shown in this May file photo. Several New Mexico schools have recently been forced to temporarily return to a remote learning model due to outbreaks of COVID-19 cases. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

Vivian Frey teaches 4th grade at El Dorado Community School. Santa Fe's real estate market is booming, but only time will tell if those moving in are families with children who may enter the schools system. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Visitors to Fort Union National Monument, near Watrous, see the remnants of fort walls and ruts made by wagon traffic on the Santa Fe Trail. Fort Union was established in 1851 near the junction of the trail's Mountain and Cimarron cutoff routes. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Sculptor Reynaldo "Sonny" Rivera's installation "Journey's End," on Museum Hill in Santa Fe, depicts the challenges faced by men and beasts traveling the Santa Fe Trail about 900 miles from Missouri to New Mexico. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

The rocky formation dubbed Wagon Mound, because it resembles a covered wagon, was a familiar landmark for travelers along the Cimarron Cutoff route of the Santa Fe Trail northeast of present-day Las Vegas, N.M. The Trail was a vital merchants road from 1821 until 1880, when the arrival of the railroad in Santa Fe made it obsolete. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Missouri trader William Becknell, known as the father of the Santa Fe Trail, would have seen this 1806 church when he passed through San Miguel del Vado, southeast of Santa Fe, on his first trading trip in 1821. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Land baron and rancher Lucien Maxwell built the Aztec Mill in Cimarron in 1864. Now a museum, the mill once provided ground grains for travelers along the Santa Fe Trail, the famed Old West commercial route that marks its 200th anniversary this year. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

A car passes by a building that survived the March 1862 Civil War Battle of Glorieta Pass on the Santa Fe Trail. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

The New Mexico Supreme Court building in Santa Fe, as seen in March 2020. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

A face mask is shown stuck in the weeds along Interstate 25 near Santa Fe on Monday. New Mexico transportation officials are relaunching an anti-litter campaign amid a recent surge in pandemic-related roadside debris. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

Robert and Katy Paquin, both from Oklahoma, put on their face masks before entering a Santa Fe brewery in this April 28 file photo. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham's administration on Friday adopted new federal guidance that fully vaccinated individuals no longer have to wear masks in most indoor and outdoor settings. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

CHRISTUS St. Vincent Regional Medical Center in Santa Fe, photographed in March. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

John Paul Valencia, with the city of Santa Fe's Traffic Signals Division, hangs banners of people serving, or who have served, in the military as part of the city's "Hometown Heroes" project. Santa Fe American Legion 12 is sponsoring the banners, which are hung on light poles along Cerrillos Road through Veterans Day. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Communication Specialists Christopher Flores, left, and Alvina Dickson work answering calls at the Santa Fe Regional Emergency Communications Center. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Lyn deMartin holds a bull snake she recovered from inside a neighbor's grill. DeMartin organizes and trains volunteers to help relocate snakes for people in the Eldorado area. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Ashkia Trujillo of Ohkay Owingeh Pueblo performs traditional northern dance on Thursday in front of the remains of the Soldiers Monument that was toppled last October. The Santa Fe Arts Commission discussed ideas for a temporary art installation for the site on the Plaza in Santa Fe. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Charles Verral, right, owner of Rob and Charlie's, talks with customer Jenn Arlin, left, at the bike shop. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

In this Jan. 20 file photo, from left, funeral directors Israel Perea, Santiago Salazar III, Jacob Shaw and Christy Cantu at Berardinelli Family Funeral Service prepare to transport a casket to the Santa Fe National Cemetery as part of a funeral for a woman who died from COVID-19. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Ken Mayers of Veterans For Peace protests on April 23 at Guadalupe and West Alameda streets in Santa Fe, near a building LANL plans to use. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Veterans For Peace members protest at the corner of Guadalupe Street and West Alameda Street near a building LANL plans to put offices in Santa Fe on Friday April 23, 2021. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

An oil pump jack north of Carlsbad in 2019. The U.S. House Natural Resources Committee passed a bill on Wednesday, sponsored by Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández, that would direct $7.95 billion to cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells across the country. (Eddie Moore / Albuquerque Journal)

Capital High School's Alan Gutierrez, a senior, participates in batting practice at the school Thursday. With former baseball player Nicholas Salazar now on board as coach, the program is showing improvement. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

The well that supplies water to Cañoncito sits near the very dry Galisteo Creek. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

The community of Eldorado, south of Santa Fe, is in stage 1 water restrictions due to long-lasting drought. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

In this June 1 photo, Michael Arias of Albuquerque fishes along the Pecos River near Terrero. The state is offering hunting and fishing licenses as part of a campaign to encourage new vaccinations against COVID-19. Arias has already been vaccinated. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Rio Arriba County Sheriff James Lujan and his attorneys walk out of the courtroom in Tierra Amarilla for the lunch break on the first day of his trial. Lujan is facing charges of bribery of a witness and harboring a fugitive. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham spins a wheel to award lottery scratch-off tickets and other prizes to COVID-19 vaccine recipients in Santa Fe in this June 2 file photo. The state's vaccine administration rate increased slightly in the days after the lottery initiative was announced. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

A large box now stands on the Santa Fe Plaza where the Soldiers' Monument stood until protesters toppled it last October. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

A concrete slab is all that remains of the Don Diego de Vargas sculpture that stood in Cathedral Park. City workers removed it last June and put the sculpture into storage. ( Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

The Santa Fe Oxygen and Healing Bar and Apothecary Restaurant is among more than a dozen businesses that filed lawsuits last year against top state officials over financial losses incurred during the pandemic. The New Mexico Supreme Court ruled Monday that business losses related to COVID-19 restrictions are not automatically grounds for compensation under state law. The ruling came months after the court heard arguments in the case. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

In this file photo, Sen. Katy Duhigg, D-Albuquerque, stands in the Senate chambers during debate on a bill to expunge cannabis-related criminal convictions.(Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

David Gonzalez, 19, of Albuquerque fishes along the Pecos River near Tererro last week. The state Game Commission is scheduled later this month to consider petitions that would affect public access to some waterways. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

In this 2019 photo, methane gas is burned off at the site of three oil wells near Carlsbad. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Rusty and Violet Martin, from Canyon Lake, Texas, have lunch in the patio area of the Plaza Cafe in downtown Santa Fe. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Meow Wolf's The House of Eternal Return in 2019. The Meow Wolf Workers Collective announced Friday that it ratified a four-year union contract with Meow Wolf that includes worker protections and benefits like guaranteed salaries for all artists. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Kelly Quintia, left, with her daughter Zevi Keyes, 3, center, and Marna Hitt, second from left, and her daughter Vivi Hitt, 3, listen to country music by Johnny Lloyd and Tim "Timbo" Arnold, right, on the Plaza last week. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Daniel Caldera, owner of El Molero Fajitas, and his daughter Gabriella recently resumed selling fajitas from their food cart on the Santa Fe Plaza. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Friday that New Mexico will eliminate its pandemic-related business restrictions on July 1. (Eddie Moore/Journal)

Mario and Rebecca Sena, of Santa Fe, ride through the Santa Fe Plaza in their '72 Volkswagen Beetle last Tuesday. Even the cruisers are returning to the Plaza now that the pandemic has subsided. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Allen Bruce Paquin, from Jemez Pueblo, shows his jewelry on the Palace of the Governors Portal Friday June 11, 2021. The Portal was closed to Native American artists on March 17, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic but reopened on Friday. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

Native American Artist Laverne Loretto-Tosa, from Jemez Pueblo, shows her pottery to people on the Palace of the Governors Portal Friday June 11, 2021. The Portal was closed to Native American artists on March 17, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic but reopened on Friday. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)

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Senate decisively approves bill funding NM wildfire recovery efforts. Here's what's next:

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February 8, 2023 9:36AM

Senate Bill 12 aims to expand film incentive package

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February 8, 2023 9:07AM

7 gun laws proposed in New Mexico

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February 8, 2023 8:19AM

House committee endorses automatic voter registration in New Mexico

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February 8, 2023 5:17AM

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February 7, 2023 12:38PM

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Untangling the policies and politics of New Mexico's medical ...

Legislature looking at changes to 2021 ... Legislature looking at changes to 2021 law designed to help doctors

February 5, 2023 12:02AM

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Gov't transparency organization adds new members

Two local journalists join the New ... Two local journalists join the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government's board

February 5, 2023 12:02AM

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Bill seeks to stanch rise of organized retail crime

'We can’t operate like this,' business ... 'We can’t operate like this,' business owner, robbery victim says. 'People have just had it.'

February 3, 2023 10:08PM

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A New Mexico deputy education secretary has resigned. She ...

Jacquelyn Archuleta-Staehlin steps down a week ... Jacquelyn Archuleta-Staehlin steps down a week after the PED announced her appointment, and amid questions about whether she was a good fit

February 3, 2023 9:55PM

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As New Mexico mandates state workers go back to ...

About two-thirds of the state's nearly ... About two-thirds of the state's nearly 17,000 rank-and-file employees were already back in the office full-time as of the start of this year.

February 1, 2023 7:37PM

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Alec Baldwin and armorer charged with involuntary manslaughter in ...

Hannah Gutierrez-Reed told authorities Alec Baldwin ... Hannah Gutierrez-Reed told authorities Alec Baldwin had failed to attend required firearms training during the filming of “Rust,” so she had requested an hourlong ...

January 31, 2023 7:15PM

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New NM health secretary learning on the job after ...

Patrick Allen heads a key agency ... Patrick Allen heads a key agency on the front lines of the state’s pandemic response, after leaving behind a lengthy state government career in ...

January 29, 2023 12:05AM

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New Mexico bill would ban contracts for migration detention

Recently introduced bill could unwind contractual ... Recently introduced bill could unwind contractual arrangements at Otero County Processing Center in Chaparral

January 29, 2023 12:05AM

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Native American leaders: Educational trust fund will be key

Native American leaders said creating a ... Native American leaders said creating a special $50 million trust fund to help finance educational p ...

January 29, 2023 12:05AM