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New Mexico childhood obesity up as Trump administration cuts erode healthy food programs
10+ hour, 39+ min ago (1242+ words) Tina Sanchez, kitchen manager at Sandia Vista Elementary, helps prep trays of food before kindergarteners arrive to lunch at Sandia Vista Elementary School in Rio Rancho in April 2025. A team of public health officials, school nursing staff and volunteers measured…...
WNMU names new president following yearslong turmoil
3+ week, 3+ day ago (764+ words) Western New Mexico's graphic announcement of Jose Coll, provost and vice president of academic affairs at Western Oregon University, to become the university's 16th president. Western New Mexico University regents have selected Jose Coll to take the reins of the troubled…...
Release public records: It's the law
3+ week, 5+ day ago (616+ words) The Department of Public Safety has a duty to enforce the law. Yet as an agency, it appears reluctant to follow the Inspections of Public Records Act " which, after all, is the law of the state of New Mexico. As…...
Department of Public Safety's difficulties in providing records continue
3+ week, 6+ day ago (1643+ words) Hurry up and wait. The New Mexico Department of Public Safety repeatedly misses its own deadlines for producing public records " often extending them again and again " while asking requesters for patience. The agency showed far less flexibility earlier this month…...
Use Plaza sculpture to highlight culture
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (408+ words) Regarding the Soldiers' Monument: How about leaving the four-sided base where it is but adding a plaque to each side. Side one could talk about the Pueblo people who have lived in this area for thousands of years. Side two…...
Only two GOP governor candidates clear ballot threshold at convention
1+ mon, 6+ day ago (628+ words) Community members, politicians and local officials listen as Republican candidate for Governor Gregg Hull speaks during a public meet and greet at New Space Nexus on Wednesday in Albuquerque. Only two of the five Republican hopefuls for the party's gubernatorial…...
As New Mexico GOP gathers for convention, two governor hopefuls skip debate
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1202+ words) Matthew Jaramillo, board chair of the New Mexico Chamber of Commerce, jokes with gubernatorial candidate state Sen. Steve Lanier Wednesday, March 4, 2026 during a public meet and greet featuring candidates for governor at New Space Nexus in Albuquerque. RUIDOSO" Two of…...
Democrats, Republicans head to Ruidoso for preprimary conventions this weekend
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (616+ words) Ruidoso police Chief Lawrence Chavez takes a phone call during a 2024 tour of areas damaged by the South Fork and Salt fires and the floods that followed. Chavez and his family also lost their home to the fires. A region…...
A simple proposition: Public records belong to the public
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (439+ words) Any study of how the Inspection of Public Records Act is working in New Mexico must start from the premise that public records belong to the public. Such a study has been mandated by House Joint Memorial 2, passed in the…...
St. John's College president invokes mission of dialogue across disagreement at inauguration
1+ mon, 2+ week ago (1410+ words) J. Walter Sterling, left, greets Remi Van Der Vaeran, 1, and family after being welcomed as college president during the inauguration ceremony Friday at St. John's College. President Sterling becomes the eighth Santa Fe president in the campus' 60-year history and is…...