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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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SANTA FE -- New Mexico lawmakers are reviving a long and so far unsuccessful effort to pay members of the state Legislature a base salary. A proposal to ask voters to amend the state Constitution to establish a citizens' commission on compensation, which would have the authority to set legislators' salaries, is in the works for the upcoming legislative session. The push to end New Mexico's status as the only state in the nation whose legislators are unsalaried is part of a larger effort to modernize the Legislature. Other...
Since she hit the campaign trail some 18 months ago, Karen Bedonie has had to replace the tires on her car five times. The Libertarian gubernatorial candidate has logged 183,000 miles — and counting — as she crisscrosses the state to meet with voters in her long shot bid for governor. "I've changed the axle already once because I've hit I don't know how many potholes," she said. "I think I can tell you where all the big potholes are in New Mexico." Bedonie, who is running against incumbent Democrat Gov. Michelle Lujan Gri...
Taxpayers didn't waste any time telling Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham how they felt about her plan to spend $10 million to build a clinic near the Texas border in Las Cruces that would provide abortion services and other reproductive health care. Within hours of announcing she was designating the funding from her capital outlay money in the upcoming legislative session, the governor started to receive emails from New Mexicans who were incensed by the decision, according to documents obtained under a public records request....
