Your Source NM Week in Review

By Julia Goldberg | Editor-in-Chief

Holiday decor at the Genoveva Chavez Community Center in Santa Fe. (Photo by Julia Goldberg/Source NM)

Happy Saturday, everyone. And happy Halloween! 🎃 Hopefully, today brings all the candy, jump scares and cute costumes you deserve (including none at all, if you don’t go in for that sort of thing). In addition to being Halloween, today also is the last day of early voting in New Mexico before the Nov. 3 election and the last morning/night of daylight saving time. Yup, set those clocks back. Feels like an appropriately busy end to a busy week. You’ll find just a few highlights below from our top stories, with much more to read online at sourcenm.com. More to come as well next week, particularly on Tuesday. Whether you’re dashing out to cast a ballot today or waiting to vote, we’ve got you covered with our Voter Guide. Thanks for reading. We’ll see you Monday!

New Mexico Gov. Lujan Grisham announces federal disaster aid for severe weather, flooding

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham on Monday announced that President Donald Trump had approved a federal disaster declaration following widespread flooding afflicting many northern New Mexico counties and pueblos. A National Weather Service database recorded nearly 50 major weather events, including a tornado in Santa Fe.

New Mexico students walk out of classes to protest data centers, US Sen. Heinrich’s permitting bill

Hundreds of students from New Mexico School for the Arts in Santa Fe and the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque — some donning Halloween costumes — walked out of classes Tuesday and joined protests organized against data centers, pipelines and fossil fuel projects.

New Mexico leaders pay tribute to civil rights icon Dolores Huerta following her death at 96

On Wednesday, New Mexico leaders paid tribute to legendary civil rights activist and United Farm Workers co-founder Dolores Huerta, a native New Mexican, who died at her home in California at the age of 96.

Bernalillo County expecting 10 USDOJ monitors on Election Day

The United States Department of Justice will send approximately 10 monitors to polling sites in New Mexico’s most populous county on Election Day, county officials told Source NM on Thursday, amid the federal government’s recently announced expansion of its nationwide election monitoring effort.

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