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After a few weeks of traveling across the state, the New Mexico Higher Education Department heard from colleges and universities that maintaining facilities has been a challenge. The department will use a windfall of funding to ensure existing buildings receive upgrades.

What if citizens could make suggestions to government officials on how to spend money? That鈥檚 the idea behind a new pilot project. District 6 City Councilor Nichole Rogers is working with Participatory Budgeting of Albuquerque to host a session Tuesday night to hear from the community about spending state capital outlay dollars.

Albuquerque school district residents are voting on property tax increases that would raise about a billion dollars for projects over the next six years.鈥�

New Mexico鈥檚 unique way of paying for public infrastructure projects has been under fire lately. Critics say lawmakers often divert money as political鈥�

Lawmakers sidelined a proposal Friday to change the way New Mexico pays for public works projects. A broad coalition of business, labor and good鈥�

The state auditor released a report Friday showing about $4 billion is sitting around across the state unspent鈥攂ut it鈥檚 unclear whether that money could鈥�

Many people complain that big public works projects aren鈥檛 getting done in New Mexico because the system we use to fund them is dominated by politics. But鈥�

There are less two weeks left in the 30-day legislative session. People, Power and Democracy's GwynethDoland has been up in Santa Fe covering state鈥�

The issue of transportation and capital outlay reform has been 鈥渇ront and center鈥� during this year's 30-day legislative session in Santa Fe. Many say New鈥�

New Mexico lawmakers are readying their infrastructure wishlists for this year鈥檚 session. But some believe the capital outlay system 鈥� that funds our鈥�