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- The Los Alamos County clerk
- became the first to not abide by a court order and issue same sex marriage licenses
- . The clerk will now head to district court do defend her decision.
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- The Santa Fe Reporter
- is suing Gov. Susana Martinez over alleged open government violations
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- Roxanne Lara
- announced she would run for Congress in New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District
- . Steve Pearce currently holds the traditionally-Republican district.
- A group seeking to "save" behavioral health providers in the state
- produced a 30-minute video
- on the behavioral health shake up.
- The state Supreme Court
- will hear the case of a group of four on state pensions who say they should receive cost of living adjustments
- for their pensions.
- The New Mexico Environmental Improvement board
- will meet to decide the fate of the San Juan generating Station
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If the plan is approved, it will then go to the Environmental Protection Agency for review, said PNM spokeswoman Valerie Smith on Tuesday. The EPA would have nearly a year to consider the plan. The new plan, announced in February, will shut down two of the four of San Juan’s power generators, and PNM would build a natural-gas fired plant in the area.
- Navajo landowners
- want better deals for energy leases
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- Drought and Fire Digest:
- The city of Albuquerque mayoral race
- has been devoid of water issues
- , New Mexico Mercury says.
- A new ad from Richard Berry
- focuses on the controversial "Strike Force" video
- and he tries to pin it to Pete Dinelli.
- Dinelli again positioning himself as the only candidate not on the Right in the mayoral race.
@PeteDinelli says he'll sign Mayors Against Illegal Guns petition that includes criminal background checks a priority in Congress. #ABQ2013
— Peter St.Cyr (@Peter_StCyr) September 3, 2013- The Grant Count Clerk
- will begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples next week
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- Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz
- was in the state and visited the state's national labs
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- The Journal uses Moniz's visit
- to look at the uncertain future of the labs' funding
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- The Catholic Diocese of Gallup
- is declaring bankruptcy
- to deal with the amount of litigation from abuse from priests.
- Curry County Commissioners
- approved electronic voting stations
- for Voting Convenience Centers.
- A Los Angeles consultant
- wrote new rules for drilling
- that the San Miguel County Commission will look at.
- The Bureau of Land Management
- will limit drilling of oil and gas around Chaco Culture National Historical Park
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- The Las Cruces City Council
- approved a 3/8 of 1 percent sales tax increase
- , saying the city was forced to do so by actions from the state legislature.
Mayor Ken Miyagishima said the council was compelled to make the decision to raise sales taxes after the New Mexico Legislature voted in March to repeal the state's Hold Harmless Act, which has provided municipalities and county governments with state stipends to compensate for the loss of taxes on food, medicine and some medical services when those taxes were eliminated several years ago. Miyagishima and city administrators emphasized that had the city not raised sales taxes it would have faced at least a 9.5 percent loss in revenues.
To put it in perspective, Assistant City Manager Mark Winson said a 9.5 percent loss would have meant the Las Cruces Police Department, whose $24 million budget is the largest in city government, could have faced a $2 million cut.- The state continues to
- maintain the secrecy that surrounds the state's medical marijuana program
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Under its rules for the program, the department not only refuses to release the names of the licensed nonprofit dispensaries, but the names of the people associated with the dispensaries, which produce and sell medical marijuana.
Several years ago, the Health Department did provide arrest records for people associated with organizations seeking dispensary licenses but blacked out the names. The records showed arrests and/or convictions for prostitution, drug dealing and other crimes. We don’t know whether any of those with criminal records ended up working in licensed dispensaries.- The
- oil boom is being friendly to Hobbs
- , economically.
- A Shiprock chapter in the Navajo Nation
- may consider opposing the tribal government's proposed purchase of a coal mine
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The resolution was proposed in June by Diné CARE but has not been considered by chapter members, although it is scheduled for the Sept. 22 regular chapter meeting, said Shiprock Chapter president Duane "Chili" Yazzie.
"At that point we should be ready to approve it or not approve it," he said.
In addition to rejecting the purchase, the proposed resolution calls for the tribe to begin the transition toward renewable energy on the reservation.- Albuquerque was the only major metropolitan area
- to see home prices fall in July
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- Sen. Tom Udall
- squared off with Secretary of State John Kerry on Syria
- at a committee hearing.
- It's that time of the year --
- accusations of campaign signs being stolen
- . As anyone who has worked on a campaign will tell you, signs don't vote.
