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Wednesday, November 9,2011
Local News

Legal Status

Can Tesuque Pueblo boot undocumented tenants?

Joey Peters
Tesuque Pueblo Trailer Village resident Alicia Olivas is worried that a new tribal policy will split her family up.
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Wednesday, November 9,2011
Local News

Burn Scars

Indicators: Nov. 09

Joey Peters
Northern New Mexico suffered many losses after the Las Conchas fire engulfed 150,000 acres this summer.
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Wednesday, November 9,2011
Local News

The Big Picture

The Matrix

Joey Peters
SFR's Weekly Matrix
Wednesday, November 9,2011
Features

Train in Vain?

Once a beacon of progress, the Rail Runner now faces an uncertain future

Joey Peters
It’s 6 pm in the middle of the week, and two-thirds of the seats on a southbound New Mexico Rail Runner Express train are full. Most of the passengers are coming home from a long day of work in Santa Fe. They live near or in Albuquerque, which offers a cheaper cost of living and “more things to do,” as one passenger puts it.
Wednesday, November 2,2011
Local News

Cani-Bust

Nearly five years in, Medical Cannabis Program still has headaches

Joey Peters
Before her doctor recommended daily doses of medical marijuana, Krista Robbins frequently blacked out. Later, she would awaken with multiple self-inflicted cuts on her body. One was so bad that it required 80 stitches. Robbins, who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, says her doctors put her on “more drugs than would kill the average person,” including 1,400 miligrams of Seroquel, a powerful antipsychotic.
Wednesday, October 26,2011
Local News

High Coss

Not everyone is on board with the mayor’s bond proposal

Joey Peters
Mayor David Coss spent most of his Oct. 19 State of the City address pushing a $30 million bond proposal slated to go before voters in March’s city elections. Coss bills it as the “Opportunity and Quality of Life Bond,” which encompasses 10 city projects including broadband infrastructure, solar energy investment and public park improvements.
Wednesday, October 26,2011
Local News

Court Fees

Indicators: Oct. 26

Joey Peters
If the JSC’s budget remains the same next fiscal year, commission employees will be forced to take two weeks of unpaid leave.
Wednesday, October 19,2011
Local News

License Deregulation

What’s behind irregularities in PED administrators’ licenses?

Joey Peters
Not long after Pamela Engstrom resigned as principal of Albuquerque’s El Camino Real Charter School, her husband, Anders, requested public documents on the education credentials of a few prominent New Mexico Public Education Department officials.
Wednesday, October 19,2011
Local News

Rejected

In Brief

Joey Peters
To some, the Public Regulation Commission is best known for being cozy with the companies it regulates. So it might have come as a surprise when the PRC’s Insurance Division rejected a proposed 9.9 percent rate increase from health insurance giant Blue Cross Blue Shield on Oct. 11.
Wednesday, October 19,2011
Local News

Crowdsourcing

In Brief

Joey Peters
Gov. Susana Martinez doesn’t have much to show from a special redistricting session that she packed with an ambitious agenda. But one thing she did get was a capital outlay bill, albeit at less than half the size she originally wanted.
 
 
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