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  • Opinion: COVID crisis offers giant step forward for NM Legislature

    Heather Ferguson, Guest columnist|Updated Nov 27, 2021

    Ever since the 1970s, when Americans woke up to the dangers of government secrecy thanks to Watergate and Vietnam, the value of transparency in public policy making has become more and more apparent. Bad things are more likely to happen in darkness, not only when it comes to crime but also when it comes to laws made in secrecy, or decisions made without public input. That's why New Mexico enacted the Open Meetings Act in 1974. As it says in the act itself, the Legislature recognized that a representative government is...