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By Rodd Cayton, Route 66 Independent — Cindy Sims says her next role will be “the little old lady with story books.” After 45 years in education, the last seven as superintendent of the Estancia Municipal School District, Sims is retiring at the end of the school year. She said she wants to spend more […]
By Kevin Hendricks, NM.News — A Torrance County man is dead after exchanging gunfire with sheriff’s deputies and a New Mexico State Police tactical team Tuesday near Manzano, following an hours-long manhunt that prompted authorities to order nearby residents to shelter in place. Torrance County Sheriff’s deputies responded around 1 p.m. Tuesday to a report […]
Edgewood –– Santa Fe County and the the Town of Edgewood say they have reached a new agreement to avoid interruptions in fire service for Edgewood for the near future and study whether Edgewood should create it’s own fire department down the road. The framework for the agreement was shared in a joint news release […]
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Sam Bregman has a bold idea that he says will make aging easier for New Mexicans. In a new policy pitch announced today, Bregman says he will ask the legislature to totally eliminate state income taxes for New Mexicans aged 65 and older and he plans to pay for it from the state’s record oil […]
Santa Fe — State Representative Rebecca Dow will be on the ballot after all. The months-long dispute was settled unanimously by the state Supreme Court who ordered her name placed on the ballot, overturning a decision by a district court judge who had ruled that screenshots of voter names who had signed Dow’s petitions did […]
Santa Fe – On a chilly Friday night in late February, a steady line of cars made their way up Santa Fe’s famed Canyon Road. Past the art galleries and James Beard-nominated restaurants, they continued up the canyon where city pavement gives way to a graveled side road and arrived at their destination where samples […]
Just two weeks before early voting begins in the biggest political contest of 2026, new polling finds that most Republicans still aren’t excited about any candidate while Democrats have picked a clear favorite. An Emerson College Poll conducted last weekend for KRQE News surveyed 1,000 likely New Mexico primary voters about the candidates on the […]
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