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Topic: government
Wednesday, August 31,2011
Local News

Pit Stop

US House budget would curtail LANL funding

Wren Abbott
Two controversial Los Alamos National Laboratory construction projects will take big hits if a budget bill passed by the US House of Representatives is signed into law next month.
Wednesday, August 17,2011
Local News

Failure to Comply

A state-run facility struggles to follow state rules

Joey Peters
New problems are mounting at Los Lunas Community Program, New Mexico’s only state-run health center for developmentally disabled patients.
Wednesday, August 3,2011
Local News

Pay to Play...Kickball

Budget woes shortchange kids’ fitness

Wren Abbott
For Atalaya Elementary School physical education teacher Kristy Filbin, a simple game of Frisbee golf underscores a major shortcoming in Santa Fe’s public schools.
Wednesday, August 3,2011
Local News

The Big Picture

The Price is...

Ramon A Lovato, Alexa Schirtzinger
Visualizing national debt, the cost of commuter miles and budget shortfalls and campaign contributions state by state and according to political party.
Wednesday, August 3,2011
Local News

Going Public

Medical marijuana expo unites growers, patients and fans

Joey Peters
At the state’s inaugural Marijuana and Natural Healing Expo in the Albuquerque Convention Center, many points of view about New Mexico's medical cannabis program were on offer.
Wednesday, July 27,2011
Local News

Corporate Welfare

For JPMorgan Chase, food stamps are a thriving business

April Goméz-Rodriguez knows what to feed her family of five: olive oil instead of vegetable oil, fish instead of marked-down ground beef. But with a meager income supplemented by food stamps, she can’t always afford to make the right decisions.
Wednesday, July 27,2011
Local News

Powering Down

An Arizona utility moves past coal, but PNM digs in

Wren Abbott
More than 16 percent of children in Farmington Municipal School District, located 15 miles from the San Juan Generating Station coal plant that produces most of PNM’s electricity, have asthma or a related illness
Wednesday, July 20,2011
Local News

Rate of Return

AG’s Office struggles to recover funds after Medicaid fraud

Joey Peters
Two months ago, Attorney General Gary King indicted Joseph and Catherine Hernandez of Medicaid fraud with charges that would require them to pay around $78,600 back to the state.
Wednesday, July 20,2011
Local News

Boxed In

In Brief

Wren Abbott
The red metal box that distributes print copies of SFR may seem innocuous enough, but it and hundreds like it are coming under fire for occupying city sidewalks.
Wednesday, July 13,2011
Local News

Arizona Lite

Immigration measures have brought chaos and little else

Joey Peters
Seven days after her election as the nation’s first Latina governor, Susana Martinez, who had campaigned tough on immigration, said she would not seek an Arizona-style immigration law.
 
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