Posts by Nash Jones

The governor and Legislature are co-equal branches of the state government. So, they don’t always see eye-to-eye, which in terms of their roles of checking and balancing one another isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Unlike last year’s special legislative session on public safety, where legislative Democrats adjourned in the matter of hours as a means…

More people took their own lives last year in New Mexico than the year before. New data from the state Department of Health shows a nearly 10% rise in suicide deaths. That said, as you’ll hear on this week’s show, that follows a sharp decline the year prior for certain groups, like women and Native…