Commentary: A law goes into effect today that ensures home care and domestic workers—the people who clean homes and deliver care for others—are protected by New Mexico’s minimum wage standards and other wage protections.

Under the Domestic Service in Minimum Wage Act, domestic and home care workers are now covered by New Mexico’s wage laws, and the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions can investigate their complaints, enforce their rights, and recover their wages and damages.

Commentary: There is no disputing that one defining characteristic of the current commander-in-chief is his cranial transparency as expressed through his Twitter diatribes. Everyone from world leaders to ordinary Americans knows what he’s thinking - if not by tweet, then expressed verbally. Some see these expressions as showing a lack of restraint. But if nothing else, they are unvarnished insights to a mercurial mind.

He was threatening tariffs on imports from our number one trading partner, Mexico, beginning at 5 percent initially and rising to 25 percent over five months, as a way of forcing Mexico to stem to flow of immigration. There is almost universal acceptance on both sides of the aisle and in numerous economic circles that tariffs, though frequently used, are disruptive and generally ineffective as a means of leveling the playing field in a global economy.

Commentary: Today, Congresswoman Xochitl Torres Small (NM-2) successfully passed an amendment to the FY2020 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) to improve the safety of New Mexicans living near unexploded ordnances, or commonly referred to as unused explosives, by requiring the Secretary of Defense to provide a report on the state of unexploded ordnance on Indian Reservations.