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The Legislative Proposal that Refuses to Die

A statue of two people in front of a building.

When news broke earlier this week that the Senate Health and Public Affairs Committee had voted 5-4 to table Senate Bill 122, it seemed like one of the legal terms that most numbs the cerebral cortex would once again slip from the New Mexico lexicon, at least temporarily.  The phrase: “rebuttable presumption.”   You’re forgiven if it…

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Pack it in

The front of a building with a clock on it.

One of the things I always loved most about New Mexico in Focus as a viewer — before I took the executive producer gig last spring — was the show’s legislative coverage. Gwyneth Doland, my longtime friend and co-conspirator, in hornrims and a sporty blazer, shoving a microphone into the faces of the powerful after…

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