Johnson in Double Digits
The latest Monmouth University poll shows former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, a Libetarian Party presidential candidate,
in a three-way matchup this fall.
SF Paramedic Arrested
Edumundo Carrillo reports, “A Santa Fe city government paramedic is accused of
his emergency crew was called to help and then making dozens of purchases on the card, including once when he went to Walmart in an ambulance.”
Prosecutors want “the federal government to require methadone clinics to report to prescription drug monitoring programs, which
, including narcotic painkillers.”
New Mexico Attorney General Hector Balderas said prescribers in the state need to know if people enrolled in methadone maintenance programs are trying to get prescriptions of opioid drugs from other sources.
“Patients should not be able to go to methadone clinics and then also doctor shop for other drugs,” James Hallinan, a spokesman for Balderas, said in a written statement.
If you have UnitedHealthcare insurance and get health services at the University of New Mexico Hospital,
before you have to find a new provider. Contract negotiations have been extended.
House Majority Leader Nate Gentry (R, Albuquerque), who’s been collecting campaign donations from cannabis growers, is urging the Department of Health to
to keep up with patient demand.
SFR’s Steven Hsieh reports, “New Mexico is
with a decades-old court order to ensure benefits for indigent people.
Charles W Daniels has been sworn in for another
of the New Mexico Supreme Court. And John Franchini has been reappointed
.
It looks like a bus driver
in Las Cruces.
About 50 Las Cruces Public Schools bus drivers protested Tuesday morning in the rain outside STS of New Mexico, chanting and carrying picket signs. While negotiations continue between the bus company and the Las Cruces Transportation Federation Local 6341, the union representing the district’s bus drivers, union officials say they are growing frustrated by a lack of progress, and are beginning to feel that a strike is inevitable.
Despite a good start to El Niño in December and January, Rebecca Moss at the New Mexican says that a recent
shows New Mexico is barely better off than last year due to February and March being so dry.
We missed this yesterday, but KOB reports that US Rep. Steve Pearce, R-NM, has ended his
.
Santa Fe Reporter