where a student shot and injured two students and a school employee. The students were transported to a hospital in Lubbock while the employee suffered only minor injuries and refused treatment.
State Police Chief Pete Kassetas said at an evening news conference that the suspect allegedly sawed off the gun’s wood stock, put it in a bag and smuggled it into the school. He said he didn’t know where the gun came from, but added that it was “definitely concealed and covertly smuggled into that school.”
Kassetas also said police had “preliminary information” that the suspect had warned several students not to go to school on Tuesday.
and spoke to a former CYFD employee -- on the condition on anonymity.
Although the governor insisted nobody could have prevented the boy’s death, the former CYFD worker disagrees. CYFD had options, he says, and he doesn’t understand why they were not utilized. He said there needs to be a full investigation of this failure.
“I don’t think the system is working the way it should,” he concludes. “I saw the system work for six years, and then not work for 2 1/2 years. The difference was management and how they care about their employees. Upper management doesn’t seem to care about that.”
But the biggest bombshell was the decision of the Party Chairman Jim Lowrance, 54, to step down from that position and to seek the party nomination in the June primary for state representative from District 56, currently filled by attorney Zach Cook, a Republican who is seeking his third two-year term.
Good news for coverage of the legislative session: The Santa Fe Reporter has
. Steve Terrell will be there, of course. He writes:
Milan Simonich and I have been office-mates at the Capitol for about two years. He was the Roundhouse reporter for the Texas-New Mexico Newspapers chain during that time, but now he's working for us. He's started a new blog called Ringside Seat, which I recommend you follow.
Also joining us here is Patrick Malone, who has covered the Colorado state Legislature for several years before coming to The New Mexican.
Staci Matlock and Robert Nott will join in when needed as well.
80 percent of New Mexico voters statewide believe the influence that large campaign donors have on politicians is either a very serious problem or somewhat serious problem.
The spending bill released Monday night would effectively reinstate a federal ban on horse slaughter by cutting funding for inspections at equine facilities.
The national labs and military installations in the state
