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Hispanics Let Down By Dems
LOS ANGELES – Early this year, Brian Sandoval and Susana Martinez made history. He became Nevada’s first Latino governor. In New Mexico, she became the country’s first Latina governor. Just... Read more »
Rally Calls For Wiener To Resign
Rape isn’t funny, commissioner. That was the message from about a dozen protesters who carried signs on Civic Plaza and addressed the Bernalillo County Commission during its meeting Tuesday... Read more »
‘Working against us’
RATON – A raging wildfire, burning on a mesa north of town, exploded to 6,000 acres by late Monday, threatening homes and the city watershed and continuing to block I-25... Read more »
Layoffs Target Unions, Labor Leaders Claim
SANTA FE – New Mexico union leaders contend layoffs last week by Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration targeted organized labor, including the head of one of the largest state workers unions.... Read more »
Asst. DA Uses Facebook To Blast Fed Case
District Attorney Kari Brandenburg is looking into several comments posted on a controversial social networking Web page by a prosecutor in her office. The review of Assistant District Attorney Tracy... Read more »
Snowpack Buys Time On West’s Water Crisis
Last fall, Colorado River Basin water managers were watching Lake Mead, their largest storage reservoir, drop to record low levels and worrying about the looming possibility of the first shortage... Read more »
Housing Agency Bans Smoking
SANTA FE – Virginia Soto was 11 years old when she started smoking. The little girl was hooked soon after her grandmother and great-aunt began asking her to roll cigarettes... Read more »
Fraternity Rape Case Dwindles Over the Years
While penning a column in April on the good deeds done by members of the Omega Delta Phi fraternity at the University of New Mexico, I wondered when a frat... Read more »
‘Huge Asset’
The Sawmill neighborhood’s impressive metamorphosis will get a boost with Keshet Dance Company’s planned groundbreaking early next year of a new $5.5 million, 30,000-square-foot performing arts center. “It’s truly exciting... Read more »
Program Helps Nurses’ Transition
Christina Maaele knew she still had a lot to learn about nursing when she was licensed as an RN a year ago in March. Maaele, 35, was among the first... Read more »
Attorney Blames Self for Vaughan’s Money Problems
A veteran Albuquerque lawyer says he feels personally responsible for teaching Doug Vaughan the investment system the former real estate executive eventually turned into a Ponzi scheme. “I blame myself... Read more »
Firefighters Making Progress
SPRINGERVILLE, Ariz. – Firefighters on Sunday expressed the first real sense of hope that they were making progress in their battle against a huge eastern Arizona wildfire burning since May,... Read more »
