Albuquerque Journal newspaper stories
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ABQJOURNAL VENUE: State's official guitar to debut at NHCC
... guitar masters Gustavo Pimentel and Hector Pimentel and his band Leyenda. Earlier this year, the New Mexico Legislature passed and Gov. Bill Richardson signed a bill making the New Mexico Sunrise the state's official state guitar. The steel-string acoustic guitar is made of East Indian rosewood ...
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ABQJOURNAL NORTH: High Notes Despite Budget Cuts
... funds; using cash balances to supplement operating budgets; and depleting emergency funds. Gutierrez urged the audience to contact Gov. Bill Richardson and their local representatives about tax reform for corporate entities, “sin taxes” and possibly an increase in the state's ...
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ABQJOURNAL NORTH: School Board OKs Budget Cuts
... funds pledged for Alvord Elementary. At a Monday night meeting, both Gutierrez and Ruiz maintained that accepting the $100,000 pledged by Gov. Bill Richardson, when other school districts are in worse shape, presented moral and ethical problems. A proposal to forgo the $100,000 in emergency funds ...
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ABQJOURNAL NORTH: Gov., Owners Old Friends
... 18, 2009 Gov., Owners Old Friends By Phil Parker Copyright © 2009 Albuquerque Journal As kids, Lance and Conrad Hool played baseball with Bill Richardson in Mexico City, where they all grew up. Forty years later, they reconnected with Richardson, donating to his presidential campaign and ...
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ABQJOURNAL NEWS/STATE: Possible Downs Move Upsets Track
... Racetrack owner Stanley Fulton in 2004 threatened to revoke a promised bequest of half ownership in the track to New Mexico State University if Gov. Bill Richardson backed a Jemez Pueblo effort to develop an off-reservation casino in Anthony, or within 50 miles of the racetrack. At its Oct. 29 meeting ...
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ABQJOURNAL NEWS/STATE: Richardson Considers Tax Increase Proposals
... ; Nearly three dozen tax increase proposals to help New Mexico cope with a budget shortfall are under consideration by a task force formed by Gov. Bill Richardson. One proposal would impose the gross receipts tax on sales of groceries and most food staples. The tax was lifted in 2005. Another option ...
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ABQJOURNAL NEWS/STATE: Around New Mexico
... Fierro was convicted in October and on Friday got a seven-year prison sentence. Lovato, 38, who was a State Police sergeant and member of Gov. Bill Richardson's security detail at the time of the crash, had been drinking with Fierro for several hours leading up to the accident. Sunport Suspect ...
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ABQJOURNAL NEWS/METRO: Cuts Mean Fewer Cops, But How Many?
... slated for fiscal year 2010 will cut the force even further. Under the terms of a budget-balancing executive order issued last week by Gov. Bill Richardson, the Department of Public Safety, one division of which is the State Police, is slated to be cut by 3 percent. That will trim the DPS budget ...
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