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- The state
- scouted Arizona behavioral health providers
- even before the audit that resulted in a funding suspension finished. Gov. Susana Martinez was on the tour as well.---
- And this:
At the hearing Wednesday in Las Cruces, lawmakers heard that 72-percent of PCG’s audit findings in a North Carolina case were eventually overturned once providers were able to submit additional paperwork.
Representative Howie Morales (D-Silver City) asked PCG’s Thomas Aldrich whether New Mexico firms’ audit results might be different once they submit additional paperwork.- The city of Albuquerque
- can't bar corporations from donating to candidates
- or business entities, according to the Albuquerque Journal.
The case centers on a provision in the City Charter approved overwhelmingly by city voters in 2007. It prohibits business entities and corporations from donating to candidates for mayor and the City Council.Also banned are contributions from city contractors, defined as any person who’s “in a contractual relationship with the city” at the time of the contribution. City employees are excluded from the ban.Candidates who accept such contributions can face a public reprimand, fines or removal from office.
- The Albuquerque Journal covers
- lawmakers trying to exempt themselves from open records laws
- . They say constituents don't want their communication with legislators to be public -- but Attorney General Gary King and Gov. Susana Martinez say that isn't a valid argument.
- New Mexico has been getting a bit of national attention lately for the same-sex marriage issue.
- Slate is the latest, examining
- New Mexico as the next same-sex marriage battleground
- .
- A judge upheld a previous decision
- and said the Los Alamos County Clerk must issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples
- .
- The
- Los Alamos Monitor
- and the
- Los Alamos Daily Post
- have the local reaction.
- More Republicans are suing to
- stop county clerks in San Miguel and Valencia counties from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples
- .
- KRQE:
A group of republican lawmakers has now filed suit in Valencia and San Miguel counties to try to stop the issuing of same-sex marriage licenses.
They already filed a lawsuit in Doña Ana County, where same-sex marriage licenses were first issued in the state.- Rio Rancho legislators, all Republicans,
- oppose same-sex marriage
- .
- And the New York Times
- covered the controversial anti-abortion protests
- that targeted the New Mexico Holocaust and Intolerance Museum.
- Albuquerque City Council President Dan Lewis
- suggested a mail-in vote for the abortion ban question
- .
- This looks to be at odds with what Lewis said about a mail-in election
- to change the percentage of votes needed to avoid a runoff from 40 percent to 50 percent
- .
"According to our charter, we have to do this election and we have to find that money," said City Councilor Dan Lewis. "It's going to come at the expense of other important things that the taxpayers need to pay for."
Lewis says the city charter could be changed, to require more petition signatures or that a citizen-driven initiative gets tacked onto the next regularly scheduled election.- Sen. Tom Udall
- voted against the authorization of force in Syria
- . The authorization passed the Senate Foreign Relations Committee anyway on a 10-7 vote with one Senator voting present.
- The state Supreme Court
- heard a case on the legality of changes to the pension related to cost of living adjustments
- but did not immediately rule on it.
- The Alibi
- looks at better ways to fight forest fires
- . There is no real good place to excerpt because it is so interconnected, so go read the whole thing.
- The Santa Fe Reporter
- looks at the crowded Santa Fe municipal races
- .
- While the behavioral health audit and resulting funding suspension is getting all the attention,
- the health insurance exchange is supposed to launch soon
- .
Starting Oct. 1, businesses with 50 or fewer employees, as well as individuals, can enroll for health insurance coverage through the New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange, or NMHIX. Insurance coverage is effective starting Jan. 1, 2014. Employees under their employer's program can enroll in the exchange starting Nov. 1.
- A group of 200
- showed up to oppose Albuquerque Mayor Richard Berry's plans for the bosque
- .
- Former State Rep. Brian Moore
- joined the board of Think New Mexico
- .
- That means he will help decide what the next step for the
- very effective group
- is.
- The San Juan County Commission
- voted to approve the plan for the San Juan Generating Station
- .
- Well
- this is just dumb
- :
According to APD, on Wednesday afternoon, officers took precautionary measures at City Hall after a man phoned in and said Mayor Richard Berry should be blown up.
- I guess it goes without saying, but no matter how much you dislike a politician, threatening them is a dumb, dumb idea.
- Media News:
- The Santa Fe New Mexican lost no time replacing Julie Ann Grimm (the new Santa Fe Reporter editor). Daniel Chacon, most recently of the Colorado Springs Gazette, will be taking over the City Hall reporter job at the state's second-largest paper.
- A judge has
- expedited the decision on a proposed horse slaughter plant in Roswell
- . The decision should come by the end of next month according to the Associated Press.
- The Portales Police chief
- is going to resign after less than one year on the job
- .
- The Carlsbad Current-Argus looks at
- mining potash from the sky
- .
The Geoscience Division of Fugro Airborne Surveys Corp. is deploying Resolve, an airborne electromagnetic technology, to map and explore the geological depths of Carlsbad. The Canadian based company was hired by a local mining company to survey an area outside of Carlsbad for potash.
According to Aaron Rampersad, senior geophysical operator, the equipment emits an electromagnetic frequency from the front of the sensor, which penetrates to 500 meters below the surface and is then echoed back to the rear of the cylinder. The data recorded by equipment onboard the helicopter is analyzed and used to create maps of the areas identified by clients.- Science is awesome.
- Zozobra
- will burn tonight
- .
