Four candidates are competing for two seats on the board of directors for the Southern Sandoval County Arroyo Flood Control Authority (SSCAFCA), including the board chairman. Ronald A. Abramshe is one of two board members whose terms expire at the end of the year. The other, Jim Fahey, who was elected mayor of Corrales last […]
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Decades of Work Near Long-term End to Placitas Mining Threat
It was the mid-1990s when Las Placitas Association President Carol Parker began scouting for a leader to take over nudging the feds into protecting thousands of acres of public land from mineral mining and oil drilling. Twenty-five years later, all those nudges from agencies and Congress backed by local persistence, numerous allies, and an alliance […]
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New Mexico Pulls Plug on Missing and Murdered Indigenous People Task Force
This story originally appeared in New Mexico In Depth, a non-profit newsroom covering New Mexico issues. It is republished here with permission as a part of our commitment to bring our readers the best in independent local news, even if we did not write it. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s administration has quietly ended a state […]
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New Mexico Winds Blows Into Placitas
Continuing with its successful 2023-2024 season, the Placitas Artists Series is hosting the New Mexico Winds quintet Nov. 12. The quintet is the faculty artist-in-residence woodwind at the University of New Mexico, and was formed in 1984. The group performs most of the standard woodwind quintet repertoire and is premiering new works for the ensemble. […]
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About the off-year election
New Mexico is having an election in a couple of weeks. Now is a good time to get started figuring out whom and what you will be voting on. More precisely, we are having lots of separate elections, all at the same time and on the same ballot, coordinated by your county clerk. The official […]
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How to Put an End to Tribalism
We’ve seen for most of 2023 what it looks like when a minority of a narrow majority pulls the strings in the House of Representatives. Because this small segment of the GOP caucus is also among the most voluble, vocal and visible, it’s easy to assume they represent the mainstream of the caucus. They do […]
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Corona Residents Ponder a Boomtown Future
Some people were lucky enough to have been born in tiny Corona, descended from pioneers who survived in this unyielding frontier. Some of us have chosen to live here, drawn by the gritty ranching community and by the wide skies, the unmarred horizon, the nights rich with stars. We live between the Gallinas Mountains and […]
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Congress Can Learn from New Mexico
The U.S. House could take some lessons from the New Mexico Senate when it comes to finding their way out of the Speakership crisis that is currently paralyzing government in D.C. Not today’s New Mexico Senate, of course. It has no leadership crisis. But the more evenly divided New Mexico Senate that existed in the […]
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Sandia Park Man Held Without Bail in Oñate Shooting
A Sandia Park man is believed to have driven more than an hour from his home to Española where he provoked a crowd gathered around a contested public monument, shot someone, assaulted someone else and fled back south until he was stopped by tribal police. Ryan Martinez, 23, will stay in the Rio Arriba County […]
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Sandia Peak Enters Joint Venture Agreement
A new joint venture agreement could help bring skiers back to the Sandia Peak slopes. The Sandia Peak Ski Company entered into the compact with Mountain Capital Partners, which already owns numerous southwest- based ski areas – including two in New Mexico. “The foundations of our company were built on the lessons we learned from […]