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How One Advocacy Group Is Making the Case for Open Primaries in New Mexico

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In the latter case, New Mexico Open Primaries wants to encourage the creation of a nonpartisan independent committee to help with redistricting in 2021. While the group hopes to push the issue in the state’s legislature, efforts to do that failed in committee earlier this year.

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Medical Societies Speak Out on Proposed Aid-in-Dying Bills

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Last week a Nebraska legislative committee began deliberations on one such bill , prompting protests from the Nebraska Medical Association and Nebraska Academy of Family Physicians. Canadian legislation falls short on conscientious objection, the country’s medical society says.