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- Tuesday was filing day for candidates, and there officially are three candidates for mayor: Incumbent Richard Berry, Pete Dinelli and Paul J. Heh.---
- KRQE says
- the race will pick up now
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- Each of the candidates agree
- the anti-abortion activists protesting at the New Mexico Holocaust and Intolerance Museum was wrong
- . This includes the two candidates, Berry and Heh, who support a proposal to ban abortion after 20-weeks. The third, Dinelli, is pro-choice and was the first to condemn the protest.
- New Mexico In Depth does something really cool and
- posted officials' financial disclosure forms online
- . The forms currently are not available online anywhere else.
- The
- searchable database is available here
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- Capitol Report New Mexico
- spoke to Democratic gubernatorial candidates Gary King and Linda Lopez
- about how national media says Martinez is a shoe-in for reelection. They say, unsurprisingly, that they are undeterred.
- Thom Cole
- looks at the history of the perception of corruption in New Mexico
- and finds it may be because of New Mexico's strong freedom of information law.
- The chief of staff for the Public Regulation Commission has accepted a second job, as many people have in this economy. Only
- he may have took a job at a company that is regulated by the PRC
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- PRC Chief of Staff Johnny Montoya confirms with SFR he has already accepted the job offer. But he declines to name the company on the record or disclose his new title, which is significant because the same state law bars PRC employees from appearing before the commission or in court on behalf of regulated entities for one year after leaving the PRC. Montoya says he will not be appearing before the PRC or in court on behalf of his future employer. He’s leaving the chief of staff position, where he made $90,899 annually to oversee the agency’s general operations, on Aug. 30.
- The hearing on new medical marijuana rules
- was postponed because so many people planned on attending
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- State Rep. Dennis Roch
- was named the superintendent of Logan Municipal Schools
- according to the Clovis News-Journal.
- Roch replaces Johnnie Cain, who resigned as Logan’s superintendent on July 14 to become superintendent of the Portales school district.
Roch’s contract is for two years at a salary of $86,000 a year, he said. Roch was selected on a 5-0 vote of the board, said Tom Humble, board president. - The Santa Fe Reporter
- covers the battle over abortion in Albuquerque
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- Fronteras has
- a story on the difficulties that families with mixed immigration status have
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- Both sisters also worry about their mother, who remains undocumented. Now that Alba has deferred action, she has a temporary work permit and recently got a job as a Spanish interpreter. She'll soon get health care benefits from her employer. But her long-term future is a big question mark.
"I don't know what I'd be doing in ten years," Alba said. "I'm just scared of next year in December, that's when my deferred action runs out." - The former head of the Albuquerque Police Officer's Association
- has been charged with misdemeanor fraud
- for allegedly paying himself $400 for union work that he didn't do.
- There is a movement brewing in Las Cruces
- to change state liquor laws to help downtown Las Cruces
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- City officials have given their initial blessings, and so have some southern New Mexico legislators, to a proposal by the Downtown Las Cruces Partnership that could provide a new eligibility category for a new type of full restaurant liquor license. The proposal, which would require approval from the New Mexico Legislature, would enable restaurants, clubs or bars in cities with a certified New Mexico MainStreet designation to obtain a full-service liquor license for $50,000, provided they operated within the boundaries of the MainStreet program.
- The Farmington Daily-Times reports on Farmington City Council
- saying they want alternative plans to plant closures at the San Juan Generating Station.
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- The Las Vegas Optic writes about Sen. John Arthur Smith's proposal
- proposal to merge New Mexico Highlands University and Luna Community College
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- New Mexico
- is sixth in the nation in oil production
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- Attorney General Gary King
- reached a settlement with a law firm over potentially misleading advertising
- targeting home owners.
- The CEO of a cookie plant in Deming, New Mexico
- said he had to automate because he could not find enough workers
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- Media News:
- Lindsey Anderson of the Las Cruces Sun-News
- won Digital First Media's monthly DFMie award
- for a story on the shortage of U visas.
- The Santa Fe school board
- is asking for Taos' help in a lawsuit
- that alleges the state is not providing adequate funding for education.
- State Sen. Bill Soules
- says Gov. Susana Martinez is cherry-picking stats to justify third grade retention
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- The New Mexico Racing Commission
- will hear public testimony on a possible issuance of a sixth gaming license
- on August 21.
- A sailor
- back from deployment on the U.S.S. New Mexico proposed to his boyfriend
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- About 200 people were gathered at the dock of the Naval Submarine Base New London where Machinist's Mate Jerrel Revels proposed to Dylan Kirchner. Kirchner said he had thought about getting married but the proposal Monday came as a surprise.
- The U.S.S. Santa Fe, meanwhile,
- deployed to the Pacific
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- The company that proposed building a horse slaughter plant in Iowa
- decided to stop their plans
- . The company that wants to run a horse slaughter plant in Roswell, New Mexico, however, is prepared to keep fighting to open the plant.
- Luna County's manager
- wants public input on a capital improvement plan
- for the county.
- Luna County will hold two public meetings for input at 5:30 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 19 and at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 20. Both meetings will be held in the basement of the Luna County Courthouse.
- The DOE provided at $5 million grant
- towards research into algae-based fuel
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- NMSU is working on the project along with Los Alamos, Argonne and Pacific Northwest national laboratories, Washington State and Michigan State universities and four companies.
Key goals of the project are to improve the yields and stability of algal biomass and cultivation systems while also improving oil content at harvest. - The village council of Ruidoso
- renewed the contract of the city manager
- after no discussion.
- CORRECTION:
- The Morning Word said that Adam Laxalt was the grandson of Pete Domenici. He actually is the son of Domenici.
