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1 month ago | 
organmountainnews.com | Marjorie Childress |Trip Jennings
Marjorie Childress, New Mexico In DepthThis article was originally published by New Mexico In Depth. A bill meant primarily to close loopholes in New Mexico’s law governing the reporting of campaign contributions and expenditures crashed and burned in the House Government, Elections & Indian Affairs committee on Friday. “The bill is dead,” Senate Majority Leader Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe, said late Friday afternoon.
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2 months ago | 
tricityrecordnm.com | Marjorie Childress |Trip Jennings
Challengers argue the president usurped Congress’s power to appropriate funds Tuesday turned into a day of chaos for thousands of New Mexicans and its elected officials as they attempted to grasp if money for local, regional and state programs and services was frozen after President Trump’s administration ordered a pause of federal grants and loans.
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2 months ago | 
nmindepth.com | Marjorie Childress |Trip Jennings
Tuesday turned into a day of chaos for thousands of New Mexicans and its elected officials as they attempted to grasp if money for local, regional and state programs and services was frozen after President Trump’s administration ordered a pause of federal grants and loans.
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Jan 20, 2025 | 
nmindepth.com | Marjorie Childress
New Mexico In Depth Executive Director Trip Jennings and Managing Editor Marjorie Childress discussed efforts last Friday lawmakers may take during the 2025 legislative session to increase alcohol taxes and to further an ongoing project they’ve undertaken in recent years to reform the state’s tax structure in general. Listen to their conversation here, or there’s a transcript below. Transcript, lightly edited for clarity:Trip Jennings: Hi, everyone. Thanks for watching the video here.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
tricityrecordnm.com | Marjorie Childress
New Mexico’s congressional delegation during a Washington, D.C. press conference Tuesday urged the U.S. House of Representatives to extend a compensation program that helps people pay for treatment of cancer and other diseases derived from exposure to uranium ore, a key component of the U.S. nuclear-arms race of the 20th century.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
tricityrecordnm.com | Marjorie Childress |Trip Jennings
Nonprofit organization required to register as a Political Action Committee and disclose spending A dark money group that ran political advertising in the weeks before the June primary election and has fought divulging the source of its money and the details of its spending for months will disclose both by next week. News of the settlement with The New Mexico Project came Monday afternoon in a press release from the State Ethics Commission after a mid-morning court hearing in Albuquerque.
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Sep 24, 2024 | 
sandovalsignpost.com | Marjorie Childress |Trip Jennings
By Marjorie Childress and Trip JenningsA dark money group that ran political advertising in the weeks before the June primary election and has fought divulging the source of its money and the details of its spending for months will disclose both by next week. News of the settlement with The New Mexico Project came Monday afternoon in a press release from the State Ethics Commission after a mid-morning court hearing in Albuquerque.
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Sep 23, 2024 | 
nmindepth.com | Marjorie Childress |Trip Jennings
A dark money group that ran political advertising in the weeks before the June primary election and has fought divulging the source of its money and the details of its spending for months will disclose both by next week. News of the settlement with The New Mexico Project came Monday afternoon in a press release from the State Ethics Commission after a mid-morning court hearing in Albuquerque.
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Aug 29, 2024 | 
ourcommunitynow.com | Marjorie Childress
ShareMaxeon, Inc., a global solar company, plans to build a large factory at Mesa del Sol, a master planned community just southeast of Albuquerque, with a promise of eventually creating 1,800 jobs. If the company succeeds, they would be one of the largest manufacturers in the state. Other renewable energy companies have announced plans to open in the state as well, spurred on by incentives included in the federal Inflation Reduction Act.
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Aug 7, 2024 | 
sourcenm.com | Marjorie Childress
A federal judge has rejected a nonprofit group’s bid to move to federal court a campaign finance case brought against it by the state ethics commission. In a July 17 opinion, Chief United States District Judge William P. Johnson for the District of New Mexico said his court lacked jurisdiction over the question of whether or not the New Mexico Project, a nonprofit formed last year, must register as a political committee and disclose its donors.
