New Mexico in Focus Senior Producer Lou DiVizio runs through some of the biggest items to come out of the 2023 legislative session, including a record-setting $9.6 billion budget plan and a wide-ranging tax package that went through some last-minute tweaks. Among those tweaks came another change to a proposed alcohol tax increase, amounting to about a penny per drink. Read more from Trip Jennings and Marjorie Childress at New Mexico in Depth.

New Mexico in Focus Political Correspondent Gwyneth Doland heads back to the Roundhouse to talk about sunshine week, and transparency in that record-setting budget.

Secondly, the Line reacts to new legal threats from an anti-abortion activist who promises a lawsuit over the new reproductive rights bill is signed by the Governor.

Finally, the panelists also discuss a new report from ProPublica revealing the state lost track of nearly two dozen people who had been sentenced to life without parole as children.  

Host: Lou DiVizio

Political Correspondent: Gwyneth Doland

Line Host: Gene Grant

Guests:

Dan Boyd, Albuquerque Journal Capitol Bureau Chief 

Rob Black, president & CEO, New Mexico Chamber of Commerce 

St. Sen. George Muñoz, (D) NM District 4 - Gallup, chair of the Senate Finance Committee 

Dan Foley, fmr. NM State Representative 

Sophie Martin, attorney 

Rebecca Latham, CEO, Girl Scouts of New Mexico 

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Legislative Roundup: What Passed & What Didn’t – The Albuquerque Journal 

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