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  • Opinion: Special session: an opportunity to right wrong

    Shannon Kunkel, Guest columnist|Updated Apr 2, 2022

    The New Mexico State Legislature has undoubtedly made advancements to better transparency in recent years – from opening conference committees to the public, to archiving webcasts. One momentous victory was making public the legislative sponsors of individual capital outlay appropriations. For decades, each legislator handpicked which public works projects to sponsor with their discretionary allotment of funds, but because the appropriations were combined into one massive package, the public never knew which lawmaker was behi...