By Nicole San Roman, UNM Health Voting is now open for the “Top 20 Most Beautiful Hospitals” in the U.S.” and The University of New Mexico Sandoval Regional Medical Center – A Campus of UNM Hospital (SRMC) needs the community’s help to make it to the top spot! Click Here to Vote for SRMC! The […]
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Post-debate polling puts New Mexico in play for Trump if Dems stick with Biden
A leaked poll from a Democratic-leaning firm, the first public poll data following President Joe Biden’s disappointing performance in last week’s presidential debate, shows Biden losing support in key battleground election states and even puts a few reliable Democratic voting states in play – including New Mexico. The poll by Democratic firm OpenLabs — first […]
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Will my trash be picked up on July Fourth? Answers to your questions about city services over the holiday week
When a big summer holiday comes during the middle of the week, lots of local government services we take for granted change their hours or close. So will trash be picked up? Can I go to the library to beat the heat? Are city pools open? The answer, according to the City of Albuquerque, is […]
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Photos: Historic rain floods Downtown, stranding bus, drivers and nightlife patrons
Albuquerque’s Fire Rescue Department responded to calls from at least 5 motorists stranded in flooded vehicles late Saturday night as a large thunderstorm dropped just under 1.5 inches of rain in about two hours across the metro. City Desk’s Roberto Rosales captured the scene Downtown where storm water forced the closure of Central Avenue under […]
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UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center among top in U.S. for social responsibility, equity and care
By Nicole San Roman, UNM Health Sciences Center UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center – A Campus of UNM Hospital (SRMC) is ranked among the top hospitals in the country for being most equitable and socially responsible. SRMC’s also received top marks for patient outcomes, value of care, community benefit and pay equity, among others. The […]
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Here come the ads! GOP reserves $2M in ABQ TV ads for election
New Mexico’s second congressional district is one of the most hotly contested races in the country, and Republicans are already spending big to reserve coveted local TV ad space. A memo from the National Republican Campaign Committee shared with Republican donors and posted online Thursday touts a $2,043,200 ad buy in the Albuquerque media market […]
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Gov. Lujan Grisham, who pushed her own gun health orders, weighs in on Surgeon General’s gun health crisis declaration
On Tuesday, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy declared gun violence a national public health crisis. While that federal declaration carries no immediate effects, it does echo a similar order issued last year by New Mexico’s Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham. Lujan Grisham weighed in today on the new federal declaration: The surgeon general’s declaration of […]
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List of missing residents shrinks as New Mexico village seeks recovery from wildfires
By SUSAN MONTOYA BRYAN Associated Press The number of residents still unaccounted for has been shrinking significantly after thousands of people fled their homes as two fast-moving wildfires approached their village in southern New Mexico, Ruidoso Mayor Lynn Crawford said Tuesday. Search and rescue crews have cleared more properties in the areas of Ruidoso, the […]
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Heinrich-led bump stock ban gained speed, then stalls when one Republican objects
On Friday, the U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative majority ruled that it would take an act of Congress, not a Trump-era regulatory rule, to ban bump stocks for firearms. Monday afternoon, New Mexico’s U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich, joined by Sens. Susan Collins (R-Maine) and Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.), announced that they had organized nearly two dozen […]
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Fed. health program for Manhattan Project downwinders to expire this week as Speaker sends US House home without a vote
The U.S. House of Representatives adjourned on Thursday without a vote to renew and extend a federal program helping families suffering from radiation-related illnesses developed in the earliest days of America’s nuclear weapons programs. Without specific authorization for the program, benefits for those already covered may be in jeopardy when Congressional authorization for the program […]