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Border Security
US Senators Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich urged US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) to promptly address border
in the Bootheel region of southern New Mexico.
Reduced Reimbursements
New Mexico health care providers are
as Health and Human Service Department executives and lawmakers consider how to bridge a $417 million budget gap.
Critics Challenge Health Department
Health department
to decide how to cut 53 school-based public health clinics’ budgets
Transgender Polices Shaping Up in Santa Fe Schools
The New Mexican reports the Santa Fe Public Schools District is “working quietly to shape specific policies to
on school campuses.”
Gov. Susana Martinez faced a tough crowd at a glitzy gala in New York City last night. Michael Coleman, the Albuquerque Journal’s Washington bureau chief, was at the event and reports Martinez received a standing ovation, but many in the crowd were
during her biographical speech.
While Martinez was trying to cut through the loud chatter in NYC,
was greeting about 70 supporters at the University of New Mexico.
Scott Darnell,
, is stepping down from his $116,000 a year job on April 22.
Nick Piatek, a deputy secretary in the state Homeland Security and Emergency Management Department, will take over Darnell’s job as deputy chief of staff starting April 25. A former White House staffer, Piatek previously worked in the Governor’s Office as director of boards and commissions.
Heath Haussamen writes, “The Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), which has a history of watchdogging New Mexico politicians, has been taken over by a man who also leads or advises ‘several of the big-money groups crucial to the Clinton-for-president effort,’
recently reported. Many former CREW staffers say that Clinton ally, David Brock, has ‘defanged’ the ‘prominent, nonpartisan watchdog group that helped lay groundwork for what’s become the Clinton email server scandal,’ The Center reported.”
Suicide bombers “seem impossible to stop, but a group of
that could help save lives and eliminate one of the world's most deadly, frightening and elusive types of weapons,” reports Ryan Luby at KOB.
The device is the size of a baking pan and sits atop a small tripod. It uses a small X-band radar -- the type of technology used in air traffic control and weather radars. But instead of tracking planes and storm systems, it can detect suicide vests and the things terrorists stuff inside them to kill people.
I don’t know if they were invented in New Mexico, but
. Now, 20 local restaurants are vying for top national honors. You can cast your vote in the Sandwich America survey on USA Today here.
KRQE reports the Albuquerque Isotopes have invited
The best part of going: The first 3,000 fans will go home with their very own Holly Holm bobble-head. And boom, the evening will end with a fireworks show.
Santa Fe Reporter