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Archive of New Mexico on Wednesday July 01, 2009
NM: Field of GOP gubernatorial candidates grows
The number of Republicans interested in being New Mexico's next governor is growing. The latest to consider a run is Doug Turner of Albuquerque, owner of DW Turner public-relations and strategic communications firm, who helped guide Gary Johnson's successful campaigns for governor. Read More
NM: Feds allow New Mexico and 13 other states to reduce vehicle greenhouse gas emissions
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency granted a waiver on Tuesday that allows California and 13 other states, including New Mexico, to create regulations to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in new automobiles, according the governor's office late Tuesday afternoon. Read More
NM: Attorney General's Office trains local law enforcement in human trafficking
Slavery in the United States didn't end with the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation. It still exists today, in the form of human trafficking. Human trafficking involves the use of force, fraud or coercion to obtain some type of labor or commercial sex act. Read More
NM: NM gets $13 million to help with jobless benefits
New Mexico is getting $13 million in federal stimulus money to pay jobless benefits and to administer its unemployment insurance program. Read More
US: Colorado the least obese state
WASHINGTON—Mississippi's still king of cellulite, but an ominous tide is rolling toward the Medicare doctors in neighboring Alabama: obese baby boomers. Read More
Financial crisis torments states
(Updated 11:29 a.m. EDT, July 1, 2009) California may begin issuing IOUs this week because of the state’s unresolved budget crisis. But government disruptions were averted at least temporarily in five other states that missed a July 1 deadline for closing billion-dollar budget gaps. Read More |
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