Exploring New Mexico, from native pueblos to Georgia O'Keeffe
The Seattle Times
A balloon glides over the waters of the Rio Grande river and its forested shores near Albuquerque, N.M. With most days offering sunny, clear weather in Albuquerque, the city has become known for its balloon rides, including its annual International ...
Santa Fe's Georgia O'Keeffe Museum Opens New Exhibition GEORGIA O ...Broadway World

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New Mexico high court considers appeal on back pay, raises
Santa Fe New Mexican.com
ALBUQUERQUE — The New Mexico Supreme Court is considering whether thousands of state workers covered by union contracts are owed back pay and raises totaling millions of dollars. The state high court on Wednesday heard arguments on an appeal ...

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New Mexico Watchdog
Report: New Mexico Facing Medical Access Difficulties - Insurance Journal
Insurance Journal
New Mexicans could have longer waits for a doctor or specialist as demand grows for medical services because of an aging population and expanded insurance coverage under a federal health care law, legislative auditors said Wednesday. A report ...
NM is getting older … and fatter - New Mexico WatchdogNew Mexico Watchdog
Legislative auditors fault NM gambling regulatorsBusinessweek
Report: N.M. faces medical access difficultiesConnectAmarillo.com powered by KVII
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New Mexico mom chases down child abductor
Fox News
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – Albuquerque police say a mother who saw her 5-year-old being abducted chased the suspect down and crashed her vehicle into his car, triggering a manhunt. Police say the incident unfolded Wednesday evening when the woman ...

Albuquerque police say a mother who saw her 5-year-old being abducted chased the suspect down and crashed her vehicle into his car, triggering a manhunt.

Mom in New Mexico gives chase after man grabs 5-year-old daughter; girl safe
Washington Post
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — Albuquerque police say a mother who saw her 5-year-old being abducted chased the suspect down and crashed her vehicle into his car, triggering a manhunt. Police say the incident unfolded Wednesday evening when the woman ...

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New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez to give keynote address at Ohio Republican ...
Plain Dealer
Now it's New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez's turn. Martinez, the nation's first Latina governor, has top billing at the Ohio Republican Party dinner, June 29 in Columbus. She had a prime-time role at last summer's GOP convention, where she warmed up the ...
State Dem party chair: Skandera should resignAlbuquerque Journal (subscription)

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Hunt is on for Bigfoot in northern NM
KRQE
ALBUQUREQUE (KRQE) - The Valles Caldera is an enormous volcanic crater in the Jemez Mountains in northern New Mexico, known for its elk herds. Now the area is getting attention for what else may be living there. According to some field researchers, the ...

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Mexican Wolf Captured Again After Straying In NM
Fox News Latino
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. – It's strike two for a Mexican gray wolf that was released into the wild just weeks ago. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service says the male wolf — dubbed M1133 — was captured Saturday just east of New Mexico's San Mateo Mountains.
Pregnant mate left behind to birthABQ Journal

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Around New Mexico
ABQ Journal
Dry conditions are prompting federal officials to impose more fire restrictions in New Mexico. The Bureau of Land Management will be implementing restrictions across 2.5 million acres in central New Mexico starting May 20. The area includes Bernalillo, ...

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Correra's wife alleges New Mexico tax probe
ABQ Journal
The central figure in the state investment scandal, Marc Correra, is under criminal investigation for tax fraud in New Mexico, according to the latest divorce petition filed by his wife in a Texas court. Former Brazilian model Claudia Correra filed an ...

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New Mexico's highest court considers whether judge's rulings tainted rape trial
Alamogordo Daily News
SANTA FE New Mexico's Supreme Court took up the question Wednesday of whether a judge misused the state's shield law for rape victims, preventing a young man from receiving a fair trial. The defendant, Vincent J. Montoya, claims a state district judge ...

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New York Daily News
New Mexico teacher paying up for fibbing to school officials about daughter's ...
New York Daily News
A teacher caught working in New Mexico after telling officials a bogus sob story about a dead daughter is still paying the city for fleecing the Education Department out of nearly $13,600. Zia Managaytay sent a handwritten letter to her bosses in ...

New Mexico lawmakers move to protect mineral royalties
Farmington Daily Times
"The sequester is a failed experiment one that I have been opposed to every step of the way that is harming New Mexico and should be repealed in full. But absent a comprehensive solution, Congress should stand up to protect funds that belong to the ...
Lujan offers House bill to protest Obama sequestration cut - New Mexico WatchdogNew Mexico Watchdog

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3rd suspect in Forestville triple slaying to be extradited from New Mexico
Santa Rosa Press Democrat
The third suspect in a triple slaying near Forestville that happened during a marijuana deal has been cleared for extradition from New Mexico and is expected to appear in a Santa Rosa courtroom next week, prosecutors said Wednesday. Francis Dwyer, 65 ...

Economic losses from disasters since 2000 are in the range of $2.5 trillion, a figure at least 50 percent higher than previous international estimates, according to a U.N.

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Energy exec from Japan gets warm welcome in NM
Albuquerque Business First
New Mexico's natural gas producers wined and dined a representative from the Japan Oil, Gas and Metals National Corp. on Tuesday night at the Albuquerque Country Club, with hopes that he can become a liaison between New Mexico's natural gas ...
Japanese officials tour New Mexico in search of natural gas dealKansas Watchdog

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New Mexico Health Insurance Exchange Still In Question
Fronteras: The Changing America Desk
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — States aiming to run their own health insurance exchanges will be in need of federal grants to get those exchanges launched, and are facing a deadline. New Mexico's application is in, but there's still a question of whether or not ...

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A sobering report came from the Legislative Finance Committee at the Roundhouse on Tuesday (Mary 15), citing figures that will put more strain on the state’s health care system.

Among the findings?

*Some 62 percent of adults in New Mexico were overweight or obese in 2009, and

*New Mexico’s percentage of its population over the age of 60 is already higher than the national average and will get higher in the next 17 years. By 2030 one-third of the state’s population will be aged 60 or higher. Here’s the graphic:

For years, New Mexico has had a shortage of doctors, dentists and nurses and with an aging and increasingly overweight population — not to mention the uncertainty of the Affordable Care Act, (“Obamacare”) which kicks in next year — “the state can expect even greater healthcare access problems,” the LFC report said.

That means longer wait times.

The report calls for “a more coordinated approach to healthcare service delivery.”

Here’s the link to the report:

http://www.nmlegis.gov/lcs/lfc/lfcdocs/perfaudit/Department%20of%20Health%20and%20Allied%20Agencies%20%E2%80%93%20Adequacy%20of%20New%20Mexico%E2%80%99s%20Healthcare%20Systems%20Workforce.pdf

New Mexico's Supreme Court considers whether judge's rulings affected rape trial
Farmington Daily Times
SANTA FE — New Mexico's Supreme Court took up the question Wednesday of whether a judge misused the state's shield law for rape victims, preventing a young man from receiving a fair trial. The defendant, Vincent J. Montoya, claims a state district ...

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