Owens Video
The Santa Fe Police Department has released
showing Scott Owens being arrested for drunk driving and stalking an ex-girlfriend. The video shows Owens arguing with cops and refusing to take a breathalyzer test. In 2011, Owens was acquitted of vehicular homicide charges in a drunken driving crash that killed four teens near Santa Fe in 2009. Last Friday was Owen's third DWI arrest. He was also arrested in 2012.
A new report from
shows about a third of the state's total economic activity is from federal money flowing into New Mexico.
New Mexico was fifth in the United States in dollars spent per capita by the federal government at $14,026. This included Social Security, management contacts, grants, salaries and retiree pensions. Federal dollars pay for national labs, military bases and public lands and monuments.
Economic development folks and lawmakers have been trying to
and reduce reliance on federal money.
Joey Peters over at New Mexico Political Report has discovered that three top
employees, including a deputy secretary, have recently resigned or transferred.
New Mexico Health Secretary Retta Ward, who just imposed new medical cannabis program rules last month,
after a suspected medical incident led to a car crash in Santa Fe.
Mark Oswald over at the Albuquerque Journal North has
on this week’s Santa Fe municipal election and the three uncontested City Council races. Oswald observes that “not many people around here seem to want to have to make the effort to hold office and ultimately decide the tough issues.”
This is pretty cool tech stuff. Kevin Robinson-Avila reports, “The Air Force Research Laboratory at Kirtland Air Force Base is
for a new light-weight, flexible solar array that it built to power satellites and other spacecraft.”
The Roll-Out Solar Array, or ROSA technology, uses flexible, advanced solar cell materials that make it far more compact and lighter than traditional solar arrays, reducing costs for launching and operating spacecraft, said John Merrill, program manager for Advanced Space Power at AFRL in Albuquerque. The system, which will be deployed on the International Space Station next year for further testing in orbit, caught the attention of the Federal Laboratory Consortium, which selected the AFRL in February for a 2016 Excellence in Technology Transfer Award.
Gov. Susana Martinez won’t
. Instead, she’s headed to Kansas and Florida to campaign for Marco Rubio. While all four Republican candidates pledged to support the Republican Party’s presidential nominee this fall, Martinez has not said if she will.
Lots of New Mexicans are headed to Las Vegas for the weekend to watch
defend her title on Saturday. KOB blogs that many of them have been following her career for years. KOAT put together a list of where you can
and a list of all the cover charges.
Santa Fe Reporter