Snowy Conditions
National Weather Service meteorologists are warning that
could reduce visibility on Northern New Mexico roads Tuesday morning. And schools in Albuquerque’s East Mountains are
this morning. Authorities say roads are slick after the area received several inches of snow overnight.
Presidential Caucus
Last night’s caucuses in Iowa show the
are far from over. Ted Cruz heads to New Hampshire with a win. Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders leave Iowa with the same number of delegates, and Martin O’Malley and Mike Huckabee have called it quits.
Daniel J Chacón reports that Santa Fe city councilors want
to figure out how to deal with the city’s estimated $15 million funding gap and appear reluctant to make a decision on which services should be scaled back or how to raise new revenues.
Mark Oswald reports three former Los Alamos National Laboratory whistleblowers who want to ensure the facility is
are encouraging the US Attorney for New Mexico “to reopen an old fraud case at the lab and look into the 2003 death of a former lab deputy director they maintain is suspicious.”
A majority of the state’s licensed medical cannabis growers want the Department of Health to rethink their
, which they claim are more stringent than rules in Washington, Colorado and Oregon.
The world’s largest mining company has
the sale of its coal mine in New Mexico.
The sale has been a year in the making and was among the factors state regulators considered when deciding whether to move forward with a plan to shut down part of the coal-fired San Juan Generating Station.
The terms of the sale were not disclosed, but officials with the utility that operates the power plant said the completed transaction secures the plant's coal supply as well as savings on coal costs for its customers.
The group in charge of a proposed $2 billion transmission line that would carry electricity generated by wind and solar in New Mexico to Arizona and beyond is fighting against a requirement to
it will put renewables on the line.
- New Mexico lawmakers reject a plan to tap the state’s permanent fund.
- Democrats are challenging the governor’s stand on raising any taxes.
- Joey Peters reports on a new study that shows repealing the state’s driver’s license law “would cost state money, jobs.”
- A campaign finance reform bill has cleared its first committee.
- Capital outlay transparency bill passes first test.
- Medicaid edges out political agendas in New Mexico.
- House committee debates bills strengthening DWI laws.
- House OKs bill to allow youth curfew ordinances.
- A bill to shore up lottery scholarships moves ahead.
- Steve Terrell reports, “Santa Fe gallery owners and others in the art business say a tax bill introduced in the state Senate would do serious damage to the industry in New Mexico and hurt tourism in the state Capital, known for its sizable art market.”
- Bullying prevention bill goes before House committee.
Rick Nathanson reports, “State Auditor Tim Keller on Monday called on the Department of Finance and Administration to take
of the troubled Martin Luther King Jr. State Commission, and said his office was suspending its own investigation into the commission."
“The state of turmoil at the Martin Luther King Jr. Commission places their important work in jeopardy,” Keller said in a letter addressed to the MLK commissioners and acting chairwoman Karen Montoya. “The best way to ensure the viability of the commission is for another state agency to temporarily assume its financial operations.”
Last week, investigators from the Attorney General’s Office served search warrants and combed through the offices of the MLK State Commission, located at Expo New Mexico.
Austin Denton, a New Mexico teenager, stole the national spotlight when he got his chance to interview Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning on the NFL Network yesterday.
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Santa Fe Reporter