The first article profiles Martinez halfway through her term. Other articles will look at important topics, including Martinez’s decision whether or not to expand Medicaid, her record on economic development and support for Spaceport America, her push to repeal the 2003 law that allows undocumented immigrants to obtain New Mexico driver’s licenses, her decision to create a state-based health exchange, and her efforts to find common ground with state lawmakers on the issue of limiting social promotion.

In outlining part of her agenda for the upcoming legislative session, Martinez said she will ask the Legislature to reduce the corporate tax rate to 4.9 percent from 7.6 percent over several years.

The governor also wants to wants to change how New Mexico determines the taxes owed by corporations that do business in multiple states. Companies would be offered the option of basing their tax liability on their sales in New Mexico. The change could help corporations like computer chip maker Intel, which has a plant in Rio Rancho but the bulk of its sales are outside the state. Currently, the tax obligation of a corporation is tied to its payroll, property and sales in New Mexico.

Gov’s jobs plan: starting point for helping corps. Dems drafting high impact bills 4 tech, small biz & infrastructure jobs @nmdems #nmlegis

— Tim Keller (@tk4nm) January 3, 2013

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Espinoza said her call for regular, ongoing executive sessions was not an attempt to exclude the public from PRC meetings. Rather, she said, she was trying to advocate for “retreats” or workshops in which PRC executives could have frank discussions that would prepare them for binding votes at their regular public meetings.

Roberts had worked since 2005 at the El Paso Times, where he was most recently an investigative reporter. The newspapers share the same parent company, Digital First Media.

Roberts succeeds Troy Turner as The Daily Times’ top editor. Turner accepted a promotion to Digital First’s news team in New York City.

The proposed requirement would apply to offenders who claim they don’t have a vehicle and are not driving, said Richard Roth, director of Impact DWI.

As a condition of probation, they would be required to have a home Breathalyzer and blow into the device in the morning and the evening.

John C. Tysseling, the Chief Economist for the New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department, has been appointed as a member of the U.S. Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (USEITI) Advisory Committee for a three-year term by the United States Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar. The USEITI Advisory Committee is charged with promoting transparency concerning revenue from natural resources by monitoring and reconciling industry payments and government revenues.

The break has been repaired but the system can't pressurize because many have faucets open to keep pipes from freezing.

The Sun report, penned by BBC journalist (and author) and Scientology debunker John Sweeney, claims the church designed the underground site to withstand a nuclear holocaust. Hidden within the complex's vaults are titanium caskets that hold gold disks inscribed with the original texts of Scientology founder L. Ron Hubbard, according to the Daily Mail.