By Marjorie Childress and Trip Jennings A dark money group that ran political advertising in the weeks before the June primary election and has fought divulging the source of its money and the details of its spending for months will disclose both by next week. News of the settlement with The New Mexico Project came Monday […]
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Las Placitas Association Secures Grant for Buffalo Tract Environmental Assessment
The Las Placitas Association (LPA) has received the $99,950 Trails+ 2024 grant from the Outdoor Recreation Division to conduct an environmental assessment and recreation area management plan of the Buffalo Tract land managed by the Bureau of Land Management. Announced in May, the grant was part of nearly $2 million in funding distributed to 13 […]
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Tension in the Middle East looms over Biden’s last big U.N. meeting
By Yasmeen Abutaleb, The Washington Post (c) 2024 President Joe Biden will head to the U.N. General Assembly on Monday, seeking to cement his foreign policy legacy amid the growing threat of war between Israel and Hezbollah and questions about his administration’s handling of Gaza. The annual gathering, which brings together world leaders in New […]
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House moves toward averting a shutdown, sidestepping a Trump demand
By Jacob Bogage, The Washington Post (c) 2024 Defying former president Donald Trump’s demand for a government shutdown, the Republican-controlled House appears poised Monday to advance a bipartisan funding bill to keep federal agencies open on the cusp of November’s elections. House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) late on Sunday introduced a three-month funding extension with […]
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Project 2025 is a huge blunder from Trump’s allies
By Aaron Blake, The Washington Post (c) 2024 There is vanishingly little doubt that Project 2025 has become one of the most unpopular political programs or ideas in recent history. The question is increasingly how much voters intend to hang that millstone around Donald Trump’s neck. A new NBC News poll Sunday is the latest […]
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39 Pets Find New Homes at Woofstock Pet Adoption event
Nearly 40 pets found homes as the Friends of Estancia Valley Animals hosted Woofstock, a multiagency pet adoption event, Sept. 21 at Edgewood’s Venus Park. The nonprofit has promoted responsible pet ownership through education, low-cost spay and neuter events, and adoption fairs in the Edgewood area for over a decade. Woofstock, Edgewood Animal Control’s annual […]
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‘Colors of Home’ is Wild Hearts Gallery’s October Exhibit
Wild Hearts Gallery will feature Dorothy Bunny Bowen’s “Colors of Home” as its October exhibit. According to a press release, the exhibit was inspired by all the places Bunny Bowen has called home. “Expressed in Rozome, Japanese batik on kimono silk, each piece is bound with silk noil and suspended from local juniper branches and […]
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Placitas Community Library will honor poetry’s role in fighting mental health challenges
The Placitas Community Library will feature an afternoon of poetry with three New Mexico poets on Oct. 6. Poets Hilda Raz, Katherine Seluja and Sarah Kotchian will share their work at the library starting at 2 p.m. In recognition of National Mental Illness Awareness Week, some of the poems will honor the role of poetry […]
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Mountainair Hiring EMS Chief, Certified Police Officer
The Town of Mountainair is looking for qualified individuals to fill two key public safety positions: Emergency Medical Services chief and police officer. Mountainair Mayor Peter Nieto called a special Town Council meeting in July to discuss hiring a police force. Nieto announced on social media last week that the town has hired Paul Lucero […]
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Mountainair Hiring EMS Chief, Certified Police Officer
The Town of Mountainair is looking for qualified individuals to fill two key public safety positions: Emergency Medical Services chief and police officer. Mountainair Mayor Peter Nieto called a special Town Council meeting in July to discuss hiring a police force. Nieto announced on social media last week that the town has hired Paul Lucero […]