New Mexico legislators consider how to use multibillion-dollar oil surplus as spending plan advances
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NM lawmakers advanced a budget proposal that would set aside money for long term investments, opening a literacy institute, and compensate farmers when wolves kill livestock.
Advancing on an 11-0 committee vote, the amended budget proposal would increase annual state general fund spending by roughly 6.8%, to $10.2 billion, for the fiscal year that runs from July 2024 through June 2025.
Proposed changes from the Senate add $32 million to the spending package, setting average public salary increases at 3% for state employees and staff at K-12 schools, state colleges and public universities.
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University of New South Wales research finds that social frailty increases dementia risk by 47% in adults over 70, naming low social contact and financial satisfaction as key factors.
Archaeologists and 249 schoolchildren searching for a 400-year-old castle in Northern Ireland discovered 9,000-year-old Mesolithic tools and Bronze Age remains.