{"id":47078,"date":"2021-04-30T00:30:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-30T06:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-mexico-reopens-state-capitol-to-general-public\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T03:36:47","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T09:36:47","slug":"new-mexico-reopens-state-capitol-to-general-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/new-mexico-reopens-state-capitol-to-general-public\/","title":{"rendered":"New Mexico reopens state Capitol to general public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=6bf82140-761b-557d-bb88-185a23d00ee3&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"A man walks to work at the state capitol building on March 30 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Legislators met in a special session to revisit a sprawling set of marijuana legalization proposals that led to a deadlock during the regular session earlier in March. (AP Photo\/Cedar Attanasio)\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A man walks to work at the state capitol building on March 30 in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Legislators met in a special session to revisit a sprawling set of marijuana legalization proposals that led to a deadlock during the regular session earlier in March. (AP Photo\/Cedar Attanasio)<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Cedar Attanasio<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>New Mexico reopens state Capitol to general public<\/p>\n\n<p>SANTA FE, N.M. \u2014 The New Mexico state Capitol building has reopened to the public as the COVID-19 pandemic eases. It was closed to the general public for four consecutive legislative sessions.<\/p>\n<p>About 50 visitors wandered the corridors of the circular Statehouse on Wednesday as the doors were unlocked to all visitors for the first time in roughly a year. They were asked to wear masks and most if not all abided.<\/p>\n<p>Legislators shifted last spring to mostly virtual committee hearings as the pandemic took hold. Voting even took place remotely from outside the Capitol among members of the House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>The Capitol also was ringed by fencing and barricades, with troops on hand, between January and March as a consequence of security concerns linked to the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>A 60-day legislative session ending on March 20 focused on economic relief and progressive initiatives such authorization for medical aid in dying. Recreational marijuana was legalized during a separate special session this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>unlocked to all visitors for the first time in roughly a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[815,551,28],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-47078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-associated-press-new-mexico","tag-frontpage-feature-box","tag-headlines"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47078","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47078"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87115,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47078\/revisions\/87115"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47078"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=47078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}