For years, local officials used a Texas price agreement to green-light bus purchases. Now they’ve stopped—but the same out-of-state bus company still dominates the market
Unemployment for the state continued to sink last month, with a reported level of 6.9 percent for May, according to the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions.
When Railrunner service was cut recently, Santa Fe didn’t get a vote. No Santa Fe representative has sat on the Rio Metro Board since its inception. Now, Santa Fe officials are pushing the Rio Metro Board to reverse the decision.
The most recent sign of PRC dysfunction came June 21, when the New Mexico Supreme Court struck down the commission’s ruling on the third and latest phase of the Alternative Form of Regulation, a regulatory document that sets much of the state’s telecom standards.
If the Santa Fe Resource and Opportunity Center had one of those fundraising thermometers meant to motivate donors, the mercury wouldn’t quite reach the top.
In a country that ranks 17th in the world for the number of people who use the internet, New Mexico is near the bottom of the list, ranking 44th in the nation.
Inadequate staffing levels at Christus St. Vincent Regional Medical Center were a major factor in the National Union of Hospital and Health Care Employees’ June 13 vote to authorize a strike.