Susan Dunlap

1 month ago | helenair.com | Susan Dunlap

BUTTE -- Missoulian Rick Tabish — first convicted then acquitted of murder in the death of Las Vegas casino executive Ted Binion — seeks to turn the black slag piled along Highway 1 near Anaconda into a heaping profit. Tabish, 51, formed a company, Premier Industries, in mid-July with the intent to process the slag. Tabish approached the Mill Creek Tax Increment Financing Industrial District Board in Anaconda in mid-December with a proposal to buy or lease county land on Mill Creek Road.

Nov 21, 2024 | tricityrecordnm.com | Susan Dunlap

Measurement includes programs and tax credits that the state offers An alternative measure from the U.S. Census Bureau ranks New Mexico as 17th in the nation for child poverty, which is above the national average. New Mexico Voices for Children, a policy research and advocacy organization, announced on Wednesday two separate types of measurement from the U.S. Census Bureau that use similar data from the same agency.

Nov 5, 2024 | tricityrecordnm.com | Susan Dunlap

Bill would create an office within the Indian Health Service to oversee graduate medical programs U.S. Rep. Melanie Stansbury introduced a bill that would provide $4 million annually to create an office within the Indian Health Service to oversee graduate medical programs. Stansbury, who represents New Mexico’s 1st Congressional District, introduced the Indian Health Service Provider Expansion Act, which would amend the Indian Health Care Improvement Act.

Oct 31, 2024 | tricityrecordnm.com | Susan Dunlap

Organization will nor be called the Rain Fund Indigenous Women Rising, a grassroots abortion fund provider supporting Native individuals, is experiencing a decrease in donations while, simultaneously, an increase in those needing their services. Rachel Lorenzo, founder and co-executive director of IWR, told NM Political Report that the abortion fund provider experienced “huge growth” after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturned Roe v. Wade.

Oct 29, 2024 | tricityrecordnm.com | Susan Dunlap

Brief argues federal law requires stabilizing emergency room patients New Mexico’s congressional delegation signed onto an amicus brief arguing that federal law requires stabilizing emergency room patients, including if that care requires an abortion. More than 250 members of the U.S. Congress signed into the brief.