By Kevin Hendricks — New Mexico voters just got a cheat sheet — the legal kind. Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver and Attorney General Raúl Torrez released a joint advisory Tuesday spelling out election deadlines, who belongs at a polling place and what crosses the line into voter intimidation.

According to Greggory Hull, the Republican candidate for New Mexico governor, this could be the year his party wins the election for the state’s top office. The Daily Record spoke to Republicans at this event and reached out to local Democrats by telephone the same evening who didn’t attend. Hull

By Kevin Hendricks New Mexico hunters who keep striking out in the big game draw just got some fresh ammunition. Attorney General Raúl Torrez says the state law reserving 10% of draw licenses for hunters who hire outfitters violates the New Mexico Constitution. Torrez concluded in a formal opinion dated

By Patrick Lohmann, Source New Mexico — U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) made his second New Mexico visit Monday evening in support of Republican Greg Cunningham, where he led a fundraiser in Las Cruces in the final stretch of the closely watched 2nd Congressional District race. Johnson last visited

By Pat Davis, New Mexico Political Report — For most government workers and union members, Columbus Day or Indigenous Peoples’ Day is the Monday cap to a three-day weekend. But that is not true for the U.S. Senate staff and local building trades members working to keep up with Sen.

A bipartisan permitting reform bill co-led by U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., is drawing broad support from labor unions, energy producers, environmental and policy nonprofits, business organizations, and state and local government groups as it seeks to speed federal approval of energy and infrastructure projects while maintaining environmental safeguards. This

By Kevin Hendricks New Mexico college students chasing quantum computing careers may soon find internships and research jobs closer to home. Tokyo-based Fujitsu, one of the world’s largest tech companies, will set up a quantum computing research center in the state, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham announced Thursday. The center will

By Kevin Hendricks New Mexico voters heard a campaign pitch from a familiar voice Wednesday. Former President Barack Obama wants them to elect Democrat Deb Haaland as their next governor. The endorsement comes with early voting underway in the race to succeed term-limited Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. In a

By Kevin Hendricks Alamogordo residents asked state regulators last week to test PNM’s meters. Now the regulators’ own staff wants to do exactly that. The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission’s Public Interest Advocacy Staff filed a petition Tuesday asking commissioners to authorize a formal investigation into PNM’s estimated and delayed

By Joshua Bowling, Source New Mexico — New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez is pushing back against the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s review of a proposed gas pipeline intended to power the Project Jupiter data center, calling it “inadequate.” Texas-based Energy Transfer early this year asked federal regulatory officials

By Kevin Hendricks Sen. Cindy Nava once spent her days in the Roundhouse hallways as an undocumented student volunteer, watching lawmakers she couldn’t vote for decide her future. Now she’ll be the one counting their votes. New Mexico Senate Democrats elected Nava, a Democrat from Bernalillo, as Senate Majority Whip

By Kevin Hendricks, Route 66 Independent & NM Political Report — District 5 Bernalillo County Commission candidate Thomas Riley says he wears a ring bearing the Confederate flag as an act of “open rebellion” against the federal government, and he wants the county’s Sheriff’s Office to cooperate with U.S. Immigration

By Kevin Hendricks, nm.news — New Mexico voters can start casting ballots Oct. 6 for the Nov. 3 general election. There’s no reason to wait in line on Election Day, or to walk into the booth guessing. Early voting opens Oct. 6 at county clerk offices. On Oct. 17 it

By Kevin Hendricks Major League Baseball won’t build its next field of dreams in Grand Teton National Park. But New Mexico’s senior senator says the league hasn’t ruled out other national parks, and he wants answers before anyone yells “play ball.” MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred told U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich,

By Pat Davis, New Mexico Political Report — President Donald Trump officially endorsed Republican Greg Cunningham’s bid for Congress in a social media post today where the president once again called on New Mexicans to rename the state “New America” and mispronounced the Hispanic pronunciation of current Democratic Congressman Gabe

By Kevin Hendricks, New Mexico Political Report — New Mexico communities overwhelmed by floodwaters can now tap up to $3.75 million in state emergency money and call on the National Guard for backup. Lt. Gov. Howie Morales, filling in for Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who is out of state, signed

By Kevin Hendricks, NM Political Report — New Mexico families watching their electric bills climb have a stake in a bipartisan energy bill that Sen. Martin Heinrich hopes to bring to a Senate vote days after the November election. He says its odds are the best he’s seen. This story

By Kevin Hendricks Alamogordo residents came to Tuesday’s town hall carrying their PNM bills. Some were double their usual amount, some triple, and one topped $1,900. They wanted state regulators to explain how the utility arrived at those numbers. The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission hosted the two-hour town hall

Guest Commentary By Brian Colón, NM Managing Partner, Singleton Schreiber — FEMA has spent years arguing that the law Congress passed to compensate Hermit’s Peak-Calf Canyon (HPCC) Fire victims only covers losses with a price tag, for example a home, a fence, a business, or a medical bill. Everything else,

By Kevin Hendricks In 2010, Mark Zuckerberg told Facebook users, “We do not and never will sell any of your information to anyone.” A Santa Fe jury didn’t buy it. Jurors in state District Court found Friday that Meta Platforms Inc., formerly Facebook Inc., willfully violated New Mexico’s Unfair Practices

By Jesse Jones, The Paper. — U.S. Rep. Teresa Leger Fernández wants New Mexico to hit pause on new data centers, saying Thursday that companies should first prove they can protect the state’s water, keep electricity costs from passing onto families and bring jobs and benefits to local communities. In

By Pat Davis, nm.news — I’m tired of hearing and reading about how Deb Haaland and Gregg Hull won’t debate each other. Their campaigns will both say they have tried and this week they both pledged to show up – to different debates in different places and on different dates.

By Kevin Hendricks, New Mexico Political Report — New Mexico has poured $524 million into housing since 2022, but households with the lowest incomes get about a penny of every income-restricted dollar. The state also can’t consistently say what the rest bought, according to a Legislative Finance Committee report presented

By Jesse Jones, The Paper. — Years after the largest wildfire in New Mexico history, the National Guard is still helping northern New Mexico communities respond to flooding across the burn scar. Now, the state wants FEMA to pay millions for that work. The New Mexico Department of Homeland Security

By Jesse Jones, The Paper. — New Mexico’s data center boom could drive up electricity rates for residents while putting more pressure on the state’s water supply. Democratic gubernatorial candidate Deb Haaland announced her support for a statewide moratorium on new large-scale data centers as electricity demand grows and drought