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NM Rep. Lente Says Tax Package Will Help Lower and Middle Class

March 20, 2025
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3.21.25 – House Bill 14, an extensive tax package, passed the House last week. The Senate Finance Committee approved it earlier this week – but not without some key amendments. Bill sponsor and Chair of the House Taxation and Revenue Committee, Representative Derrick Lente, tells Politics Correspondent Gwyneth Doland why he’s not going to support…

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Solitary Confinement in NM

March 20, 2025
Two men are seated in armchairs facing each other in a studio with a screen displaying "New Mexico in Focus.

3.21.25 – Earlier this month, a federal judge ordered Socorro County to pay $2 million to Jessie Chavez, a man who accused jail guards and officials of essentially torturing him in solitary confinement during two stints of incarceration in 2022 and 2023.  Steven Robert Allen, an attorney and director of the New Mexico Prison and…

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