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Serving Clovis, Portales and the Surrounding Communities
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Complying with a ruling from Third Judicial District Court Judge James T. Martin, the city of Las Cruces has released unlawfully withheld public records and provided a written description of other withheld records and passages redacted. The case was brought by attorney Peter Goodman on behalf of Michael L. Hays when the city of Las Cruces failed to comply with a request from Hays to inspect records under the Inspection of Public Records Act, according to a news release from the New Mexico Foundation of Open Government. The la...
SILVER CITY - It all started in 2011, when Polly Cook's most handsome rooster got a little... cocky. "I had this one rooster that was just gorgeous," Cook recalled. "He would be the rooster that you would paint. He strutted around big time, and took care of all the girls. He was used to being the only man around the house, so he crowed whenever my boyfriend came over." One morning, Cook was greeted by a summons to appear in court posted on her front door. When she responded,...
New Mexico Attorney General Raul Torrez joined a coalition of 22 other state attorneys general in support of the Biden administration’s targeted cancellationof the student loan debt program before the U.S. Supreme Court. In an amicus brief filed in the cases Biden v. Nebraska and Department of Education v. Brown, the attorneys general argued that U.S. Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona has the authority under the HEROES Act to provide limited debt cancellation to prevent student loan borrowers from experiencing grave finan...
New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas has announced that his office has resolved its opioid litigation against retail pharmacy chain operators Walmart, CVS, and Albertsons in a statewide deal that will deliver more than $132 million to the state and to local communities to fund opioid abatement efforts within the next 90 days. When combined with previously announced settlements obtained from other manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, Balderas’ office has obtained more than $368 million in opioid abatement f...
Brace yourself. Election season is picking up momentum, and citizens can expect at least another month’s worth of robocalls from campaign phone banks and blaring TV ads. You may have also found another alarming symptom of midterm fever: mysterious mailers warning that you may not be properly registered to vote. If they look suspicious to you — you are right. Two of these official-looking letters landed in my post office box, warning, “Someone at this address may not be registered to vote.” For a citizen who is passion...
SILVER CITY — Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham signed an executive order urging New Mexico municipalities and counties to ban the retail sale of fireworks in their communities. The request for additional preventive action comes as numerous wildfires burn throughout New Mexico and severe drought conditions persist across the state. While state statute does not enable the executive to implement a statewide ban on fireworks, the executive order follows the implementation of statewide fire restrictions prohibiting fireworks, o...
The U.S. Postal Service raised postage rates Aug. 29, after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit denied a petition by the National Newspaper Association, News Media Alliance and others to put a hold on it. The court simply issued a statement that the petition was denied, without providing any reasoning for the decision, according to a news release. NNA and others had argued that the Postal Regulatory Commission’s decision to authorize the increase by the USPS was flawed and that the rate increase s...
The New Mexico Legislature passed a number of useful bills in the recently completed special session dealing with police reform, racial equality and elections. But none of those was the reason Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham was compelled to call lawmakers back into session. Reports about the coronavirus were starting to circulate in late February when the Legislature was completing work on the state budget, but they apparently didn’t reach the Roundhouse. Lawmakers passed a record $7.6 billion budget, an 8 percent hike from t...
SILVER CITY — The Grant County Commission took the first step Oct. 18 toward what amounts to an incentive deal for a wind farm project proposed for the southern reaches of the county. After initial public reaction to the project, however, several commissioners had some serious questions for the project’s developers. The Great Divide Wind Farm, which was first presented to the public at the commissioners’ work session on Oct. 16, is being developed by Boulder, Colo.- based renewable energy developer Scout Clean Energy LLC. The...
One of the myths of the Old West is the concept of rugged individualism — the idea that it’s possible for one man to stand alone, being completely self-sufficient. It’s an attractive idea, because who among us hasn’t gotten fed up with their neighbor, or politics, or being threatened with arrest if we don’t fully clothe ourselves before leaving the house? Few places were actually more Old West than Silver City, Grant County, New Mexico Territory, however — and a cursory review of our history here blows some big holes in that...
SILVER CITY — Member entities of the Grant County Water Commission have a lot of thinking to do regarding their proposed county water distribution project that would tie the county’s largest communities together via pipeline. How any new joint powers agreement is structured will have a big impact on how many dollars will be added to the monthly water bills of each community’s customers. Together with the Southwest New Mexico Council of Governments, the commission’s members — Silver City, Bayard, Santa Clara, Hurley and Grant...
