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1 week ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Daniel Chacon |Daniel Chacón
Gregg Hull, Rio Rancho's longest-serving mayor, is breaking ground as the first Republican to enter the race for governor. Hull, who is serving his third term as mayor of New Mexico's third-largest city, plans to officially launch his campaign in June but has already been busy fundraising. This week, he reported $206,000 in campaign contributions since January. Hull declined a request for an interview.
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1 week ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Daniel Chacon |Daniel Chacón
At just 4 or 5 years old, Juan De Jesus Sanchez III started to learn how to care for the land on a family ranch in northern Socorro County where his grandfather was born. "I am a 13th-generation New Mexican," Sanchez said Tuesday.
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1 week ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Daniel Chacon |Daniel Chacón
Republican Nella Domenici, who launched an unsuccessful U.S. Senate bid against incumbent Martin Heinrich last year, announced Monday she won't be running for governor in 2026. "I am deeply touched by the outpouring of support I received in last year's United States Senate race as well as the extraordinary encouragement from around the state to be your governor," she said in a statement.
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1 week ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Daniel Chacon |Daniel Chacón
Women traveling from Texas to New Mexico to get an abortion are being targeted in a recently launched billboard campaign that seeks to persuade them to turn around. An anti-abortion group has placed billboards along roadways near the Texas-New Mexico border — one along Interstate 40 in Amarillo and the other in nearby Muleshoe — to combat what it calls "abortion tourism" in New Mexico.
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1 week ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Daniel Chacon |Daniel Chacón
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2 weeks ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Daniel Chacon |Daniel Chacón
State Environment Secretary James Kenney hailed the signing of a suite of water and environmental protection bills into law Tuesday as a defining moment for New Mexico. “The four bills in total, I think, are so much greater than the sum of the parts or the individual pieces,” Kenney said during a bill-signing ceremony in the governor’s Cabinet room in the Roundhouse.
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2 weeks ago | 
taosnews.com | Daniel Chacon |Daniel Chacón
State Environment Secretary James Kenney hailed the signing of a suite of water and environmental protection bills into law Tuesday as a defining moment for New Mexico. Please purchase a subscription to read our premium content. If you have a subscription, please log in or sign up for an account on our website to continue.
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2 weeks ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Daniel Chacon |Daniel Chacón
A public safety measure that expands the list of offenses that constitute racketeering is among the latest batch of bills Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed into law Wednesday. Senate Bill 70 adds human trafficking, sexual exploitation of children, criminal sexual penetration, criminal sexual contact, dogfighting, cockfighting and bringing contraband into places of imprisonment to the state's anti-racketeering law.
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2 weeks ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Daniel Chacon |Daniel Chacón
The global box office hit a record $38 billion the same year Elmo Baca opened the Indigo Theater in Las Vegas, N.M.The boutique theater with one screen and 51 seats made its debut with Star Wars: The Force Awakens, one of the highest-grossing films of 2015. "At that time, I think the movie business was, I would say, robust," Baca said.
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2 weeks ago | 
santafenewmexican.com | Daniel Chacon |Daniel Chacón
The global box office hit a record $38 billion the same year Elmo Baca opened the Indigo Theater in Las Vegas, N.M.The boutique theater with one screen and 51 seats made its debut with Star Wars: The Force Awakens, one of the highest-grossing films of 2015. "At that time, I think the movie business was, I would say, robust," Baca said.
