after his decision to issue marriage certificates to same-sex couples.
The chairman of the county party wrote in an email to supporters:
"Four years ago, we were caught flat-footed as right wing 'astroturf' groups packed public town hall forums and community meetings on clean energy, wilderness protection, and health care reform. Last year, these same groups embarrassed our community by marching through the streets with Confederate flags. On Tuesday, they plan to pull the same stunt again. We can’t stand by and let them.
Former high school teacher Nancy Schick cites on-campus school violence such as the killings at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school and at Columbine High School in Aurora, Colo., and says it seems inappropriate to allow guns on school property.
Los Alamos school superintendent Gene Schmidt says he’s not aware of any real debate about the gun show and that the club staging the show is meeting a community need.
"We went to see what was advertised as a horse show, but turned into a proselytizing Christian religious event," Frazier said.
Frazier said he was offended that he paid money for a show and had to sit through what he considered "Christian propaganda." He said the show wasn't properly advertised as a Christian event to inform citizens of the dogma to which they would be exposed.
"Why wasn't the show billed as a Christian event?" Frazier asked.
The committee held a hearing on the matter Thursday and looked at the impact of taxing online sales and a review of “pyramiding,” the extra layers of tax added when each step in the production of a good or service is taxed separately, according to the committee’s newsletter.
The vast majority of those license plates are in no way associated with criminal activity or investigations. But that doesn't mean Albuquerque police are done with them.
For the next six months, license plate information for cars observed at all hours of the day and night at supermarkets, churches, neighborhoods, bowling alleys, malls and other places is stored in a city-owned database.
That database includes between 200,000 and 300,000 license plate numbers at any one time.
After the Journal asked the city about it, the city said it would review the program.
“People keep coming up to me and saying, “We’re in great shape because of all that rain, que no?” said Las Vegas City Manager Tim Dodge. “Well, I’m sorry but that’s just not been the case.”
The city of Grants is practicing what it preaches by
Beginning this week, CH2MHILL employees, formerly OMI, began removing grass from the targeted small medians in an effort to conserve water. The targeted medians thus far are on Mesa Boulevard, Washington Street, Nimitz Street and the large median on the east end of town that has the City of Grants “Welcome” sign on it.
“There are few necessities in life, and water is one of them,” said Hicks on Wednesday. “We need to use it wisely. No grass means no watering and no mowing. These medians are small and it really is not worth the time and money spent to maintain them.”
“I don’t know if exonerated is the right word, but when you’ve gone through so much and engaged in protective activity for so long, it’s an incredibly powerful and emotional experience,” said Smith’s attorney, Diane Garrity.
According to a letter obtained by the Nuclear Weapons and Materials Monitor, McMillan cited the lack of action on a $120 million reprogramming request from the NNSA to begin work on an alternative plutonium strategy and the funding cuts included in both versions of the FY 2014 Energy and Water Appropriations bills.
Congress has not signed off on the reprogramming request, which came about when the decision was made to defer the Chemistry and Metallurgy Research Replacement Nuclear Facility.
in New Mexico's 2nd Congressional District. Pearce is the lone Republican in New Mexico's five-member delegation (three Representatives and two Senators).
"I am not a one-sided party guy," said Pearce. "I have not been afraid to criticize Republicans when they are wrong and Democrats when they are wrong. Equally true, I am willing to work with both sides to get results-especially on jobs, immigration reform, and protecting southern New Mexico's economy," Pearce said.
One Democrat, Leslie Endean-Singh, has announced she intends to run against Pearce.
according to the Las Cruces Sun-News. Of course, if it is allowed in Bernalillo County, that would eat into the same-sex couples who would drive down to Las Cruces to have the ceremony performed.
ABQjournal.com received more than 1 million visits in July, topping the million mark for the first time and jumping more than 66 percent from the same month last year, according to Google analytics.
“With the brighter, faster mobile-friendly redesign of ABQjournal launched in August, we expect traffic to continue to climb,” said Donn Friedman, the Journal’s assistant managing editor for technology. The website’s entertainment section, Venue, has also been expanded and improved.
The new site redesign surely has something to do with that. And, remember, summer months are typically slower traffic time for websites.
“It is our understanding that Holy Cross Hospital will eliminate or reduce the number of experienced nursing assistants and other support staff at the hospital. And there is also a possibility that the hospital doctor in the evening will soon be ‘on-call’ and not at the hospital,” District 1199 New Mexico president Fonda Osborn wrote in an Aug. 14 statement.
