The Sandoval County Commission covered a hodgepodge of topics in the jam-packed Nov. 13 meeting, including setting its 2025 legislative agenda about the county’s evolving needs and hearing updates from the County Assessor and UNM Sandoval Regional Medical Center (SRMC). With only one meeting scheduled in November and December, the commissioners tackled a packed agenda. […]
Politics & Elections
Election Canvassing Approved Despite Errors
On Nov. 15, the Sandoval County Commission, acting as the Election Canvassing Board, approved the certification of the General Election results with a vote of 4-1. The decision was made despite errors that resulted in noncompliance of two state statutes due to delays in reporting and the disqualification of 117 provisional ballots. During the canvassing, […]
Trump picks Brendan Carr as FCC chairman
By Eva Dou, Cristiano Lima-Strong, The Washington Post (c) 2024 President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday he was naming Brendan Carr as the next Federal Communications Commission chairman, positioning the regulatory agency to do battle against social media companies and TV broadcasters that Republicans portray as too liberal. Carr, 45, the senior Republican among the FCC’s five […]
Trump picks Brendan Carr as FCC chairman
By Eva Dou, Cristiano Lima-Strong, The Washington Post (c) 2024 President-elect Donald Trump said Sunday he was naming Brendan Carr as the next Federal Communications Commission chairman, positioning the regulatory agency to do battle against social media companies and TV broadcasters that Republicans portray as too liberal. Carr, 45, the senior Republican among the FCC’s five […]
Trump allies eye overhauling Medicaid, food stamps in tax legislation
By Jacob Bogage, Jeff Stein, Dan Diamond, The Washington Post (c) 2024 , The Washington Post President-elect Donald Trump’s economic advisers and congressional Republicans have begun preliminary discussions about making significant changes to Medicaid, food stamps and other federal safety net programs to offset the enormous cost of extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts next year. Among the […]
Trump allies eye overhauling Medicaid, food stamps in tax legislation
By Jacob Bogage, Jeff Stein, Dan Diamond, The Washington Post (c) 2024 , The Washington Post President-elect Donald Trump’s economic advisers and congressional Republicans have begun preliminary discussions about making significant changes to Medicaid, food stamps and other federal safety net programs to offset the enormous cost of extending Trump’s 2017 tax cuts next year. Among the […]
Kari Lake settles election defamation case brought by Arizona official
By Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Washington Post (c) 2024 PHOENIX – A year-long defamation case against Kari Lake, who falsely blamed a local Arizona election official for her 2022 defeat for governor and has sowed distrust in American election systems, has been settled. The details of the settlement are confidential, according to two people familiar […]
Kari Lake settles election defamation case brought by Arizona official
By Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, The Washington Post (c) 2024 PHOENIX – A year-long defamation case against Kari Lake, who falsely blamed a local Arizona election official for her 2022 defeat for governor and has sowed distrust in American election systems, has been settled. The details of the settlement are confidential, according to two people familiar […]
Ruben Gallego has a blueprint to win Latino men. Will Democrats listen?
By Sabrina Rodriguez, The Washington Post (c) 2024 PHOENIX – Ruben Gallego embodies the kind of voter that Democrats struggled to keep this election cycle. A Latino with working-class roots, he won his Senate race in a battleground state that Donald Trump flipped and will become the first Latino to represent Arizona in the upper […]
Ruben Gallego has a blueprint to win Latino men. Will Democrats listen?
By Sabrina Rodriguez, The Washington Post (c) 2024 PHOENIX – Ruben Gallego embodies the kind of voter that Democrats struggled to keep this election cycle. A Latino with working-class roots, he won his Senate race in a battleground state that Donald Trump flipped and will become the first Latino to represent Arizona in the upper […]