, although it failed on a close vote. --- New Mexico is represented by two Democrats, Ben Ray Lujan and Michelle Lujan Grisham, and one Republican, Steve Pearce.
During his eight-year tenure as police chief, Schultz received his fair share of both criticism and praise. He is credited with bringing the FBI crime rate to a 20-year low; that decrease includes a drastic reduction in violent crime, a 25 percent decrease in murder and a 15 percent decrease in rape. In addition to the overall drop in the city's violent crime rate, Schultz is credited with making some pretty sweeping departmental changes. He introduced new technology like lapel cameras that record officers' interactions with the public. Schultz is also credited with creating the Family Advocacy Center, which helps victims of domestic violence, and the Albuquerque Prisoner Transport Unit and Facility.
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But many in the community disagree with the mayor's rosy description of the soon-to-be former police chief. Civil rights activist Frank Ortega of New Mexico Vecinos United said getting rid of Chief Schultz is the first step toward healing a community that is deeply wounded. “The police chief failed in his mission—the lawsuits, the deaths, everything that occurred up until that point when we finally got the DOJ to investigate and understand what was going on in this town,” Ortega said. “If he is so great, why is he leaving? Why [are] so many people buried?”
“In law enforcement,” Schultz told Joles on camera, “you’ve got young, good-looking folks that do this job. That’s our target group of employees – 20-, 30-, 40-year-old men and women. We ask them to stay in good shape. There’s nature at play.”
In a statement released to the Journal on Wednesday, Schultz said his comments came in an hourlong interview.
“We were talking about relationships that sometimes occur within the department,” Schultz said. “I spoke of how it is a problem that many police departments face” and that some of the challenges include “young people, good shape, etc.”
Because Salazar is an elected county officer, they should have started in state District Court, says the response signed by Assistant County Attorney Willie R. Brown.
In addition, the response maintains that Salazar “correctly followed the state’s marriage laws which, viewed in their entirety, clearly apply only to persons of opposite sex, and were enacted without any known sexually discriminatory animus decades before adoption of the state’s Equal Rights Amendment and laws prohibiting employees from discriminating on the basis of sexual orientation.”
Encana's move to expand its acreage position in the San Juan Basin comes despite the company releasing one of its two rigs in the basin beginning Aug. 1. Aztec Well Servicing Co. is the Encana's local drilling contractor.
Hock said last week that the company was shelving the rig to cut costs as part of an effort stay within its 2013 capital budget. Suttles echoed those comments Wednesday.
after an audit allegedly found overpayments to 15 behavioral health providers.
"We don't know when the court will give us any relief," he said. "I talked to the CEO of the agency in Raton. That agency and ours were referred in the media early on as (having our funding) restored, but he and I never got anything official stating we were restored. The Raton CEO got something official that his funding was restored last week. We joined the lawsuit. The only difference between them and us was we joined the lawsuit. I think it was retribution for joining the lawsuit. We went from being 'fully restored' to being put out of business. It just doesn't smell right."
The Drought and Fire Digest:
Is the current drought the new normal? Sen. Joe Cervantes
“We cannot discount the fact that we could be in a 75-year drought,” Cervantes said. “I would hesitate to call it a drought because this could be the norm, and the 1980s and 1990s could be the exception.”
He added people can no longer say, “This is as bad as it gets,” or “It can only get better.”
The demise of the Raton Range because of falling revenues, population, and readership was just a matter of time. Small newspapers are going fast around the country. Unless they are big enough to be bought by rightwing corporations headed by the likes of the Koch brothers, then there are no lifelines for them.Baca is a vocal and outspoken progressive, as you may have guessed from that post.
The salary increases, ranging from $6,000 to $21,000, for ten department directors were decreased to only four percent of their previous pay after City Councilors J.R. Doporto, Jason Shirley, Judi Waters and Janell Whitlock voted against the proposed final budget for the present fiscal year because of the large amounts. The vote was tied with those in favor of approving the budget as written, and Mayor Dale Janway cast the deciding vote to amend it.
This comes after they were paid at the higher rate for one pay period.
Bill King, the brother of Attorney General Gary King,
