Official Newspaper of Eddy County since 1883

Legislative Report: May 1, 2023

It's day 70. We are down to the last few days. We are hoping that we will be done by day 75. A lot of committees were working this past Satur­day toward compromises both on policy and appropriations. Our budget, as of today, is still a couple of hundred million in the red. There are several what I would call earmarks still in some of these bills. Much dis­cussion will be about what is genuinely a...