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Heinrich, Luján Urge Senate Leadership To Act Immediately To Lower Prescription Drug Costs

SENATE News:

WASHINGTON, D.C. — In a letter to Senate leadership, U.S. Senators Martin Heinrich (D-N.M) and Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.) urged Senate leadership for immediate action on reforming pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs) in an effort to reduce the cost of prescription drugs.

“Immediate action is needed to address these harmful practices by PBMs. Americans deserve and expect protection from inflated prescription drug costs, forced pharmacy closures, formulary manipulation, and barriers to their pharmacy of choice that result from harmful PBM tactics. We cannot sit idly by while patients Read More

Denish: Interesting Matchups In Primary Filings

By DIANE DENISH
Corner to Corner
© 2024 New Mexico News Services

It’s election year. This year all 112 seats in the New Mexico Legislature are up for grabs. 

That isn’t totally accurate because 37 of those candidates have no opposition in either the primary or the general. No one else is “grabbing” for those seats. 

On the Republican side, nine House seats and nine Senate seats have competitive races. For Democrats there are 15 completive House primaries and 11 competitive primaries on the Senate side. 

Competitive primaries are created by numerous factors. This year, there have been a number Read More

TriState CareFlight Emergency Air Medical In Santa Fe And Taos Now Carry Life-Saving Whole Blood Onboard Flights

TriState CareFlight in Santa Fe and Taos now carry and can administer whole blood onboard every air medical transport. Courtesy/TriState CareFlight

AIR METHODS News:

SANTA FE — The TriState CareFlight bases in Santa Fe and Taos have announced they now carry and can administer whole blood onboard every air medical transport. Having whole blood aboard their helicopters allows their industry-leading trauma clinicians to provide additional life-saving care when every minute counts.    

“The transition from packed red blood cells and plasma to whole blood raises the bar in New Mexico for Read More

Robinson: War Veterans Join Public Debate Over Monuments

By SHERRY ROBINSON
All She Wrote
© 2024 New Mexico News Services

On Indigenous Peoples Day 2020 in broad daylight, a mob of vandals tore down the 154-year-old Soldier’s Monument in the center of Santa Fe Plaza because it was offensive to some Native Americans. Now veterans groups are demanding it be restored.

The destruction followed months of controversy that was notable for its absence of historical fact. Nobody seemed to know the obelisk honored Union soldiers, many of them Hispanic, who died in New Mexico’s two Civil War battles. But there was plenty of vitriol directed at one word that’s been Read More

New Mexico’s Elections Ranked Number One In Nation

New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver

STATE News:

          • Prestigious Non-Partisan Ranking Measures Election Performance in Each State

SANTA FE – New Mexico’s elections have been ranked best in the nation by the prestigious Elections Performance Index (EPI), a project of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s (MIT) Election Data and Science Lab described as “a non-partisan, objective measure of U.S. election administration.”

The rankings, released late last week and based on the 2022 midterm elections, use a variety of performance indicators measuring aspects of election Read More

New Mexico History Museum Presents Talk On First Known Publication About America April 3 On YouTube

NMHM News:

Friends of History in collaboration with Southwest Seminars invites the public to a talk by Dr. Thomas E. Chavez, 12-1 p.m. Wednesday, April 3 on YouTube, in which he discusses the first known publication about America in Europe.

Written as a narrative epic poem, La Historia de Nuevo Mejico recounts the early days of Juan de Oñate’s 1598 expedition to colonize northern New Mexico. It was written by Captain Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá, a member of Oñate’s settlement party, and published in Spain in 1610.

Chavez is an independent researcher, consultant, and historian; former Director Read More

NM Cannabis Control Division Recalls Concentrates Sold At Got Greens, Issues Consumer Health, Safety Advisory

NMRLD News:

SANTA FE — The Cannabis Control Division (CCD) of the New Mexico Regulation and Licensing Department is issuing a consumer health and safety advisory due to the identification of contaminated cannabis concentrates (shatter, dabs, wax, etc.) that tested positive for a prohibited pesticide.

Products subject to this recall were sold to consumers between Jan. 31, 2023, and Feb. 15, 2024, at Got Greens located at 10200 Corrales Rd Ste E2, Albuquerque, NM 87114. The concentrates were sold under the names: Purple Kush Live Sugar, Cali Dream Live Sugar, Jigglers Live Diamonds, and OG Read More

Museum Of International Folk Art And FOFA Present Annual Folk Art Flea May 4

Courtesy photo

MOIFA News:

SANTA FE — Museum of International Folk Art (MOIFA) and the Friends of Folk Art (FOFA) present the 13th annual Folk Art Flea Saturday, May 4 at the Santa Fe County Fairgrounds. Admission to the event is free. Although admission is free, FOFA members enjoy early-bird admission to the Flea 9-10 a.m. Public admission is 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. May 4.

The Folk Art Flea supports MOIFA’s excellent education programs and world-class exhibitions such as La Cartonería Mexicana/The Mexican Art of Paper and Paste, Staff Picks: Favorites from the Collection, and Between the Lines: Prison Read More

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