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New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham gives her State of the State address during the opening of the New Mexico legislative session in the House chambers at the state Capitol in Santa Fe, N.M. on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Craig Fritz)

New Mexico governor confirms virus cases, declares emergency

By MORGAN LEE AND SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham gives her State of the State address during the opening of the New Mexico legislative session in the House chambers at the state Capitol in Santa Fe, N.M. on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Craig Fritz)

New Mexico governor signs union bargaining, other laws

By MORGAN LEE - Associated Press

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham gives her State of the State address during the opening of the New Mexico legislative session in the House chambers at the state Capitol in Santa Fe, N.M. on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Craig Fritz)

New Mexico governor signs solar energy, grid update bills

By MORGAN LEE - Associated Press

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham gives her State of the State address during the opening of the New Mexico legislative session in the House chambers at the state Capitol in Santa Fe, N.M. on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Craig Fritz)

New Mexico governor wants Democratic nominee who can unify

By MORGAN LEE - Associated Press

Flags at half staff Monday for New Mexico Guard soldier

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Congresswoman: Science should guide nuclear storage decision

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press

New Mexico Sheriffs Association President Tony Mace, center, arrives Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2020, at the New Mexico state Capitol to speak in opposition to a red-flag gun bill that would allow authorities to take guns away from people deemed dangerous to themselves or others. Democratic lawmakers and Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham are pushing for the legislation. Hundreds of people filed into the state Senate gallery, including gun control advocates wearing &quot;Moms Demand Action&quot; T-shirts and more than a dozen county sheriff's who are outspoken opponents of the initiative. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)

New Mexico governor to sheriffs: Enforce gun law or resign

By MORGAN LEE - Associated Press

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham gives her State of the State address during the opening of the New Mexico legislative session in the House chambers at the state Capitol in Santa Fe, N.M. on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 2020. (AP Photo/Craig Fritz)

Michelle Lujan Grisham signs red-flag gun bill, tells sheriffs to enforce it or resign

By Morgan Lee - Associated Press

Otero County Commissioner Couy Griffin speaks Friday, Jan. 31, 2020, in Santa Fe, N.M., as hundreds of advocates for gun rights rallied at the New Mexico Statehouse against a proposed red-flag gun law that has the support of Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. The Democrat-backed bill would allow law enforcement officials or family members to seek court orders to seize firearms temporarily from people deemed a threat to themselves or others. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)

Gun control wins, marijuana loses at New Mexico Legislature

By MORGAN LEE - Associated Press

Republican lawmakers including House Republican minority leader James Townsend of Artesia, top center, consult with the lead attorney for the legislature, Legislative Council Service Director Raúl Burciaga, bottom left, as tensions flare between Republicans and Democrats on procedural maneuvers on Thursday, Feb. 20, 2020, in Santa Fe, N.M. The Legislature approved a $7.6 billion budget in the final hours of a 30-day legislative session that also included pension reforms, new college scholarships, stricter oversight of tobacco sales, new investments in early childhood education and incentives for rooftop solar. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)

New Mexico lawmakers reach budget deal as tense session ends

By MORGAN LEE and RUSSELL CONTRERAS - Associated Press

In this undated photo provided by Claire Chase for Congress, Claire Chase, a Republican candidate for U.S. House in southern New Mexico, shoots at a &quot;red flag&quot; in an online campaign ad shot in Caprock, N.M. to protest a state proposed red-flag gun law. (Claire Chase for Congress via AP)

Governor urges leadership in enforcement of red-flag bill

By MORGAN LEE - Associated Press

FILE - This April 6, 2018, file photo shows the leaves of a marijuana plant inside Ultra Health's cultivation greenhouse in Bernalillo, N.M. New Mexico would legalize recreational marijuana sales without exceptions for dissenting cities and counties under a rebooted proposal form legislators that emphasizes small business opportunities and ready access to pot for 80,000 current medical cannabis patients. Legalization for the first time enjoys the full throttled support of second-year Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, who set up a volunteer commission last year to vet health and public safety concerns about recreational cannabis and on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020, pitched the benefits of the pot economy to a gathering business leaders. (AP Photo/Susan Montoya Bryan, File)

New Mexico bid for recreational marijuana is all but doomed

By MORGAN LEE - Associated Press

An aide speaks on the phone at the New Mexico Roundhouse while state lawmakers debate a state budget and early childhood education on Wednesday, Feb. 5, 2020, in Santa Fe, N.M. (AP Photo/ Russell Contreras)

New Mexico public pension reform passes in Senate

By RUSSELL CONTRERAS - Associated Press

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, right, on Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, signed legislation that ramps up spending aimed at encouraging participation in the 2020 Census, during a news conference in Santa Fe, N.M. The new law devotes an additional $8 million to promote census participation and safeguard federal spending based in New Mexico. Lujan Grisham also spoke in favor of a bill that would provide a tuition-free education to 55,000 students at public colleges and universities. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)

New Mexico triples spending on census participation

By MORGAN LEE - Associated Press

New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham, right, on Monday, Feb. 10, 2020, signed legislation that ramps up spending aimed at encouraging participation in the 2020 Census, during a news conference in Santa Fe, N.M. The new law devotes an additional $8 million to promote census participation and safeguard federal spending based in New Mexico. Lujan Grisham also spoke in favor of a bill that would provide a tuition-free education to 55,000 students at public colleges and universities. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)

New Mexico lawmakers begin push for tuition-free college

By MORGAN LEE - Associated Press

Three sponsors of red flag gun legislation confer during a floor debate at the New Mexico state Senate on Friday, Feb. 7, 2020. They are Sen. Joseph Cervantes, D-Las Cruces, right, and Reps. Daymon Ely, center, D-Corrales, and Joy Garratt, left, D-Albuquerque. The gun proposal would allow law enforcement officers to petition a state district court to order the temporary surrender of firearms by people who appear to pose a danger to themselves or others. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)

New Mexico Senate endorses red-flag gun bill

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New Mexico gets first Early Childhood Education secretary

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Plumber Shawn Montoya of Albuquerque, left, wears a riffle and handgun Friday, Jan. 31, 2020, to rally in Santa Fe, N.M., as hundreds of gun-rights advocates joined a show of force against a proposed red-flag gun law that has the support of Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham. A Democrat-backed bill would allow law enforcement officials or family members to seek court orders to seize firearms temporarily from people deemed a threat to themselves or others. (AP Photo/Morgan Lee)

Opponents of gun confiscation bill rally in New Mexico

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New Mexico officials call US water rollbacks ‘disastrous’

By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press

Clerks prepare the state Senate chamber in New Mexico for the arrival of legislators in Santa Fe, N.M., on Thursday, Jan. 16, 2020. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham says she'll consider red-flag gun legislation, proposals to legalize recreational marijuana and new incentives for localized renewable energy installations. Spending increases are being sought for K-12 education, early childhood programs, tuition-free college and more amid a state budget surplus.(AP Photo/Morgan Lee)

New Mexico governor seeks new investments in education

By MORGAN LEE and SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN - Associated Press