It’s been a quiet race so far, matching Berry’s low-key style, and his opponents point out that the mayor hasn’t joined them on stage for a debate yet.
But the week ahead will mark the unofficial start of the campaign. Berry, Dinelli and Heh must formally declare their candidacies on Tuesday, and two days later, their names will be drawn to determine the order in which they will appear on the ballot.
There is a hiccup in the transfer of power to Arizona companies for behavioral health. It is
But Kurt Sheppard, CEO of the Arizona-based Valle del Sol, confirmed that the treatment foster care program in Taos may be in jeopardy. Treatment foster care allows children to receive mental health services while living in a family setting rather than an institution.
“Once we get settled, we will check with the community to see if there is still a need for that service,” Sheppard told The Taos News. He said the nonprofit believed the process of applying for a license to operate as a treatment foster care agency would have been too cumbersome in the short term, and that state officials agreed.
Only two of 24 movies that the state invested in turned a profit for New Mexico, and it was a small one, said Steven Moise, the state investment officer.
Moise, right, said the state made mostly interest-free loans of $243.7 million to filmmakers who shot their pictures in New Mexico. In return, the state was to share in the profits.
Soules, 59, said she considered herself semiretired after a career in the transportation industry with General Motors and Delphi Corp. But she still works parttime at Trax International, a private contractor at White Sands Missile Range.
The sister of Democratic state Sen. Bill Soules, she said her professional career had prepared her for service on the PRC, whose main job is to regulate monopoly utility companies.
Does changing parties help your political future? In the light of Andy Nuñez's recent switch to the Republican Party,
Just last year, several party-hoppers lost political races. Former state Sen. Shannon Robinson of Albuquerque switched from D to R and tried unsuccessfully to win back his old seat from Sen. Tim Keller. Meanwhile, former state Sen. Joe Carraro, who’d switched from Republican to independent in 2008, came up short in his race against Sen. John Ryan, R-Albuquerque.
Can anything be done about the federal government keeping mineral and energy extraction royalties as part of sequestration? Capitol Report New Mexico looks at it
“Legal immigration is a very necessary process,” said Pearce, a Republican from District 2, when questioned by a mother of two who said her husband works for a local dairy and her children live in fear because she is an illegal immigrant. “Legal immigration is very important.”
Pearce held firm to his stance that the path forward on reform is not necessarily granting citizenship or amnesty to illegal immigrants currently living in the U.S., but through guest worker permits that allow those from other countries to live and work in the U.S., but not gain citizenship.
Rep. Steve Pearce says he wants no part of any deal that exempts Washington from Obamacare. His comments came on the heels of Wednesday's ruling by the Office of Personnel Management that says U.S. lawmakers and their staffs will continue to receive a federal contribution toward health insurance that they must purchase through soon-to-be opened exchanges created by the Obama's signature healthcare law.
, including, yes, fake meth. Tours are a big thing:
The trolley goes by houses that served as exteriors for characters' homes, as well as much sketchier sites from the series. Guy Tower, a lawyer vacationing from Virginia with his wife, says he expected the tour to be gritty.
"You know, it's not like we're going to see where Gone With the Wind was filmed on a plantation," he says. "We knew it was going to be scruffy."
The defense agency had warned earlier this year that a 45-mile stretch of the proposed 515-mile transmission system could disrupt military operations in White Sands Missile Range’s northern extension area.
The Bureau of Land Management is to decide in September whether to approve the SunZia Southwest Transmission Project’s application for right of way on federal lands and other amendments for property use.
The company says if the route is not approved, it will have to cancel the whole $1.2 billion project.
Liz Shipley, Intel’s government affairs manager in New Mexico, said as technology becomes more complex, the company is having more difficulty finding candidates locally and nationally who have the needed master’s or doctoral degrees in science and engineering.
“It’s not just in New Mexico; we’re seeing a shortage throughout the country,” Shipley told Sandoval County commissioners on Thursday.
The potential buyer of Chamisa Hills Country Club in Rio Rancho
Schumacher proposes a rate of $1.38 per 1,000 gallons for the first 230 million gallons per year, which he said is consistent with the average water use for Southwestern golf courses the size of Chamisa Hills. For use above 230 million gallons a year, Schumacher suggested a rate of $2.51 per 1,000 gallons.
And don’t worry, KRSN AM 1490 isn’t going anywhere, their new space on the FM band will be an exact duplicate of their AM signal, so all of your favorite programs, whether that is the morning show with Dave and Nancy or sports with the Los Alamos Monitor’s own Mike Maez-Cote can now also be heard in crystal clear, stereo FM.
