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    • Gateway West’s $2.1M Emergency Contract Expires in 90 Days

      By Damon Scott, City Desk ABQ It’s been a long and frustrating quest for the city to find a new operator for Gateway West, formerly the Westside Emergency Housing Center. After eight months of searching — and about 90 days until an emergency contract expires — it’s still unclear who is willing or able to […] Gateway West’s $2.1M Emergency Contract Expires in 90 Days is a story from The Paper.. Publishing from New Mexico's largest city, The Paper is your source for local, independent news, covering politics, arts, culture, and events.

    • The Paper: Oct. 2, 2024

      You can pick up the old-fashioned paper version (it’s our favorite version, TBH) or read it cover to cover here on your favorite device. Love local news as much as we do? Support the local, independent journalists who write it every week. The Paper: Oct. 2, 2024 is a story from The Paper.. Publishing from New Mexico's largest city, The Paper is your source for local, independent news, covering politics, arts, culture, and events.

    • Workers’ comp legislation will help the lawyers

      In the 2025 legislative session, we will probably have a bill to increase the cap on attorney fees in workers’ compensation cases. It probably will pass. This is mixed news, a little good, a little bad. Our workers’ comp system is unusual in having a cap on attorney fees at all. The cap was established […] Workers’ comp legislation will help the lawyers is a story from The Paper.. Publishing from New Mexico's largest city, The Paper is your source for local, independent news, covering politics, arts, culture, and events.

    • We celebrate 20 years of columns

      “I want to stop and smell the roses,” he said. “If you want it, you can have it. Otherwise I’m going to shut it down.” That was newsman Hal Rhodes, founder of New Mexico News Services. He had started NMNS in 1997 to provide opinion columns to New Mexico newspapers. When Hal was ready to […] We celebrate 20 years of columns is a story from The Paper.. Publishing from New Mexico's largest city, The Paper is your source for local, independent news, covering politics, arts, culture, and events.