Voter Registration Rules Challenged
By Scott Sandlin/ Journal Staff Writer
Suit Says Law Discourages Participation by Some Groups. Four nonprofit groups that target low-income, young, minority, disabled and out-of-the-country voters mounted a legal challenge Thursday to a 2005 state law that overhauled voter registration rules.

APS Raises May Get Bite Taken Out
By Andrea Schoellkopf/ Journal Staff Writer
Expected 2 percent pay hike likely to be met with higher health premiums. Albuquerque teachers are on track for a 2 percent raise this year, but increased health insurance premiums will likely take a bite out of that.

State Water Official Appeals Well Ruling
By John Fleck/ Journal Staff Writer
  Engineer wants to clarify legal issues of drilling being classified unconstitutional. The state's top water official Thursday appealed a court decision that declared New Mexico's domestic water well rules unconstitutional.

Feel the Exotic Close to Home
By Jim Belshaw/ Of the Journal
  There's something to be said for exotic — alien, alluring, mysterious, romantic.Throw in altruism, and the next thing you know you're hauling away flood-swollen debris in New Orleans; or re-building lives in hurricane-ravaged Mississippi; or someone's snapping your picture on the roof of a house you just built in Mexico.