Your Source NM Week in Review

By Julia Goldberg | Editor-in-Chief

Happy weekend, everyone. If you’re reading this early on Saturday, we’ll be heading out to report on today’s No Kings events, which local and national organizers say will emphasize voter rights, education and early voting. Speaking of which, early voting locations expand today across the state, and will continue through Oct. 31 in advance of the Nov. 3 election. We have plenty of election-related news for you from the week, along with stories on the environment, the economy and so much more. Find a taste below, with even more to read at sourcenm.com. See you Monday!

US Interior cancels maintenance, programming at national parks, including several New Mexico sites

The U.S. Department of the Interior has canceled contracts to conduct routine maintenance and programming at numerous national parks and downgraded nearly 1,500 more projects across the country to “low priority” status, including several in New Mexico, according to the nonpartisan conservation group Center for Western Priorities.

New Mexico lawmakers grapple with proposal to help retirees combat soaring inflation

Amid rising inflation, the New Mexico organization that manages public employee retirement plans on Tuesday proposed a $250 million appropriation for ‘short term’ cost-of-living adjustment relief for retirees.

New Mexico US Sen. Heinrich touts bipartisan permitting reform bill amid environmentalist criticism

U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.) on Monday held back-to-back meetings in Albuquerque with labor leaders, manufacturers and renewable energy companies to tout his new, bipartisan permitting reform bill, which has drawn criticism from local and national environmental advocacy groups.

New Mexico AG finds ‘substantial share’ of Project Jupiter public comments raise concerns

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez in a Wednesday letter to New Mexico Environment Department Secretary James Kenney said that a “substantial share” of public comments on the pending air quality permit application for the Project Jupiter data center were “not sent by members of the public acting on their own.”

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We're listening to the latest episode of the Encounter Culture podcast, about the Pueblo Revolt of 1680, which features Cochiti Pueblo artist Virgil Ortiz and collaborator Eric Garcia (if you’re in or near Santa Fe, their exhibition Continuum: Blindfall, First Strike, remains on view at the Vladem Contemporary until Sunday).

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