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SANTA FE — Republican New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez restored funding Friday to all state colleges and universities that she had vetoed earlier by tapping money from suspended infrastructure projects, while rejecting a string of tax increases proposed by the Democratic-led Legislature. The spending bill signed by the governor reinstates $745 million in general fund dollars to institutions of higher education that include university hospitals, medical research facilities, agricultural programs and schools for the blind and d...
SANTA FE — An unusual legislative revolt against a veto from New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez failed on Friday to revive a bill allowing teachers to take more than three days of annual sick leave without being hurt on performance evaluations. A veto-override vote in the New Mexico House of Representatives failed to garner the necessary two-thirds supermajority. Democrats backed the override in a 36-31 party-line vote in favor of the override. Martinez said the bill threatened to reverse recent reductions in teacher absentee r...
