Crooked Bough News Round-up

+ What to know about public financing in New Mexico’s upcoming primary election—Voters cast ballots early at the University of New Mexico polling center on Oct. 31, 2025. (Danielle Prokop / Source NM)New Mexico is one of the few s...

+ Federal regulatory staff protest proposed New Mexico pipeline for data center—A map of the proposed pipeline Energy Transfer submitted in its January 2026 application to the U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. (Via FERC)F...

+ New Mexico to impose new federal food aid document requirements to reduce errors—The New Mexico Health Care Authority will begin imposing additional documentation requirements for federal food assistance recipients beginning May 1,...

+ New Mexico Election 2026: trail notes—Greg Cunningham, a former Marine and Albuquerque Police Department detective, received an endorsement from President Donald Trump in his bid to unseat...

+ NM Land Commissioner decries Trump ‘land grab’ along New Mexico-Mexico border—Federal authorities intend to seize seven acres of New Mexico trust land along the Mexico-New Mexico border to build new wall infrastructure, accordin...

+ With GOP defections, US House passes bill extending legal status for 350,000 Haitians—Massachusetts Democratic U.S. Rep. Ayanna Pressley speaks at a press conference April 15, 2026, outside the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C. From left...

+ National Guard ‘follows the Constitution,’ general says of troops possibly deployed to polls—Members of the National Guard patrol the entrance to the Union Station stop on Washington, D.C.'s Metro system, on March 25, 2026. President Donald Tr...

+ New Mexico environment officials adopt rules for firefighting foams containing PFAS—Aqueous Film-Forming Foams, which are used to put out fuel fires at airports or oil and gas sites, will now be regulated as hazardous waste in New Mex...

+ Limits on speech rights for military retirees at issue in Sen. Kelly case against DOD—U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly, D-Ariz., speaks at a news conference at the U.S. Capitol on Feb. 11, 2026 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Imag...

+ Pushback leads Homeland Security to compromise on some warehouse detention centers for immigrants—U.S. Sen. Raphael Warnock, a Georgia Democrat, in March visits a wastewater treatment facility in the city of Social Circle that the city says would b...

+ Q&A: Bennie Thompson on his recent visit to the Adams County ICE facility—Photo courtesy of Mississippi Today Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited the story. Mukta Joshi is an investigati...

+ Forest Service plan to close research stations stokes fear as wildfire season approaches—Clouds hang over Lake Cushman, as seen from the mountains of the Olympic National Forest. The U.S. Forest Service has announced plans to close 57 rese...

+ NM Supreme Court declines AG’s request to intervene in Otero County ICE detention contract—The New Mexico Supreme Court on April 16, 2026, denied the state Department of Justice’s request to prevent Otero County from executing a federal immi...

+ NM House Republicans urge litigation over governor’s disaster spending ‘overreach’—Three New Mexico House Republican leaders said litigation may be necessary to prevent Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s emergency spending practices, and ...

+ Ballots become battlegrounds for voting rules, redistricting, election power—An election worker hands out “I Voted” stickers in Salt Lake City on Election Day in 2024. More than 30 initiatives on ballots across the country this...

+ Homeland Security’s SAVE program divides election officials as November nears—Bonneville County residents cast their votes during the May 21, 2024, primary election at The Waterfront Event Center in Idaho Falls, Idaho. (Photo by...

+ US House Dems at ag hearing excoriate Trump cuts proposed for farm and food aid—U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, speaking at a Future Farmers of America event Aug. 18, 2025, at the Tennessee State Fair. (Photo by John Pa...

+ Scores of Forest Service plans could be upended after Boundary Waters mining vote—Seagull Lake in the Boundary Waters. Superior National Forest is home to 20% of all fresh water in the entire national forest system. A congressional ...

+ Trump picks new director for Centers for Disease Control and Prevention—The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia. (Photo courtesy of CDC)WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump on Thursday said he wil...

+ Coalition grows in opposition to northern NM uranium mine proposal—A coalition of New Mexico elected officials, including six state lawmakers, issued a statement April 16, 2026, opposing a proposed uranium operation i...

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