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December 20, 2015

Confusing wording could sink New Mexico amendment

An amendment on the ballot in New Mexico could pave the way for taxpayers saving hundreds of thousands of dollars in school elections across the state.

December 20, 2015

Polls show Republican gaining in overlooked NM Senate race

New Mexico's Senate race suddenly is on the radar screen, as new polls show the Republican candidate within single digits of incumbent Democratic Sen. Tom Udall.

December 20, 2015

New health exchange boss in New Mexico survived controversy in Idaho

The New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange has hired a new executive director who received positive recommendations for running the exchange in Idaho, despite controversy over a no-bid contract that was granted and then rescinded last fall.

December 20, 2015

Gary Johnson: ‘Abolish the IRS’

For 2012 Libertarian Party presidential candidate and former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, the ongoing controversy at the Internal Revenue Service is further proof the agency should be eliminated.

December 20, 2015

New Mexico ranching family tells feds: Don’t fence us out

For more than a century, the Lucero family has grazed livestock in the majestic landscape near Fenton Lake in the Santa Fe National Forest. They started with sheep and, in the 1920s, switched to cattle.

December 20, 2015

Ex-New Mexico Gov. Johnson named pot company CEO

A Nevada-based startup that plans on selling medical and recreational marijuana products named former New Mexico governor and U.S. Libertarian presidential candidate Gary Johnson as its CEO and president, the company announced Tuesday.

December 20, 2015

VA hospitals fund solar panels while veterans wait for doctors

Veterans Administration hospitals have spent at least $420 million on solar panels and windmills while vets wait months — or even lay dying — to see a doctor.

December 20, 2015

Judges in New Mexico get a pay raise … from other judges

It was a complicated case but, in the end, a specially selected panel of the New Mexico Supreme Court gave judges a 5 percent pay raise.

December 20, 2015

Rolling to your town? Cops driving mine-resistant vehicles

For years, they’ve been used as armored vehicles for U.S. troops in places like Afghanistan and Iraq.

December 20, 2015

Confused over confusing wording, NM voters turn down amendment

Amendment No. 1, dealing with school elections, received 57.6 percent approval from voters across the state. But since the amendment concerned voting rights, it needed to be favored by at least 75 percent of the electorate.