HOBBS — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham traveled to the southeast corner of the state Thursday for a town hall in Lea County, in the heart of New Mexico’s Permian Basin region, where most of New Mexico’s oil is produced and 33% of its gas .

She acknowledged a perception in Eddy and Lea counties, which are deeply steeped in the petroleum industry on which New Mexico’s budget depends yet struggling with aging infrastructure and gaps in services, that resources produced in the region "disappear into Santa Fe and never come back."

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