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City of Santa Fe Finance Committee met Tuesday, April 18


City of Santa Fe Mayor's Youth Advisory Board met Thursday, May 18


Keller: 'Our city's public art not only beautifies and enriches, it can be a catalyst for change'

The City of Albuquerque has unveiled the latest addition to its collection in the Public Art Program, a mural supporting the movement to prevent traffic-related fatalities and injuries.


Referendum Project leader collects signatures to 'protect the people of New Mexico'

An organization looking to "use the Constitution as the tool it was designed to be" hopes to obtain enough signatures to put several referendums on the November 2024 ballot.


City of Albuquerque City Council met Monday, April 17


City of Santa Fe Sister Cities Committee met Wednesday, May 17


Organizer says cancellation of Belen motorcycle rally 'left vendors, hard-working people hanging'

Randy Gettings, event organizer of B-Town Bike Rally, said the city of Belen's decision to cancel the event caught many vendors off guard.


Nonprofit founder: 'The children in the McKinney-Vento Title I Program are going to be able to photograph their dreams'

Pictures of Hope, a nationwide program, is now in Albuquerque helping students in the McKinney-Vento Program, many of them from low-income families, KOB reported.


City of Santa Fe Finance Committee met Monday, April 17


City of Santa Fe Quality of Life Committee met Wednesday, May 17


Referendum process on six bills dealing with parental rights, freedom of speech and election integrity draws statewide and national support

The Referendum Project is gaining great momentum. The response of New Mexicans across the state to exercise their rights under the state constitution has been overwhelmingly positive.


Christ and the little green men

I thought that faith was on the way out, but along comes government with a report on 'unexplained aerial phenomena' or UAPs (aka 'unidentified flying objects'). Why the name change? Maybe our officials don’t want us to think of extraterrestrials when we see something strange in the sky… or it could be some 'brander' thought it time to update the 1940s appellation for things that hover above us.


ABQ mobile home fire victim: 'I've been here forever, I don't know what's going to happen now'

An Albuquerque mobile home caught fire on June 5, destroying it and everything inside and forcing the family that lived there to start over.


City of Santa Fe Finance Committee met Tuesday, April 11



City of Santa Fe Community Development Commission met Wednesday, May 17


Ben Ray Luján: 'The [Environmental Protection Agency’s] Clean School Bus Program has provided clean school buses to communities'

U.S. Senator Ben Ray Lujan introduced a bill to make it easier for schools to apply for federal grants to get clean buses.


Deb Haaland: 'The ancestors are here, and they are smiling down on us'

Deb Haaland received a mixed reception at a press conference to trumpet a new rule that limits oil and gas activity around Chaco Canyon.


Governor tells Farmington: 'The state will provide whatever resources necessary for as long as it takes to heal'

New Mexico Governor. Michelle Lujan Grisham approved emergency funds for the city of Farmington in the wake of a mass shooting there last month.


Albuquerque police chief:  'Interns will exit the internship better prepared for public safety careers'

Anyone interested in working in public safety is invited to apply for a new internship program being offered by the Albuquerque Police Department and Central New Mexico Community College.