New Mexico Film Office Director Nick Maniatis announced today that the feature film “The Magnificent Seven,” produced by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures and Sony Pictures Entertainment in association with LStar Capital and Village Roadshow Pictures, will be …
Read More »Law Could Bring Remote Doctor Visits to Schools
Remote doctor appointments could be coming soon to the school nurse’s office. Starting Sept. 1, a new law will allow physicians to get paid for seeing children over a sophisticated form of video chat, as long …
Read More »Coal Royalty: Are NM Taxpayers Getting Ripped Off?
FARMINGTON, N.M. – The amount of royalties coal companies pay for mining on public lands amounts to taxpayers in New Mexico and across the country getting ripped off, according to a Sierra Club official. Robert …
Read More »Millions Slated to Hire More Border Troopers
One way or another, the 84th Legislature was bound to pass immigration and border security bills. That was the general consensus after tens of thousands of undocumented immigrants flooded across the Rio Grande into Texas last summer. …
Read More »Report: New Overtime Rule Would Help Texas Women, Families
AUSTIN, Texas – Single mothers and women of color stand to gain the most from the Obama administration’s new overtime rules. That’s the conclusion of a new study by MomsRising and the Institute for Women’s …
Read More »Traffic Stop thwarts illegal immigrant smuggling attempt
U.S. Border Patrol agents working in southern New Mexico rescued four immigrants from a potentially deadly situation. Early Monday, August 17th, Border Patrol agents from Lordsburg conducted a traffic stop near the Arizona state line. According …
Read More »Plague Kills in New Mexico, Colorado
SANTA FE, N.M. – The plague, which has killed one person in New Mexico and two in Colorado this summer, is now the cause of a campground closure in California’s Yosemite National Park. Park officials …
Read More »Analysis: Education Funding With a Judicial Assist
A new season of school finance lies immediately ahead — a new opportunity for the courts to tell the Legislature to do its job or to congratulate it for getting things just right. Bet on the former. …
Read More »Border Patrol have busy weekend in Southern NM
NEW MEXICO – U.S. Border Patrol Agents assigned to New Mexico Stations in the El Paso Sector seized almost $183,000 in marijuana, recovered a stolen vehicle and arrested a convicted child molester over the weekend …
Read More »Campaign Launches to Protect Equal Rights in Houston
HOUSTON – A coalition of 35 organizations is mounting “Houston Unites,” a campaign to keep the city’s equal rights ordinance on the books. Terri Burke, executive director with the ACLU of Texas, says a lot …
Read More »Texas Leads Nation in Wind Power
AUSTIN, Texas – Texas leads the nation in total output of wind energy, according to two new reports from the federal Department of Energy. The Lone Star State has installed more than 14,000 megawatts of …
Read More »Toxic Threat: Gold King One of Thousands of Abandoned Mines
FARMINGTON, N.M. – Thousands of abandoned mines in New Mexico, Colorado and other Western states pose as much of a toxic threat, or greater, as the Gold King Mine in Colorado, which leaked three million …
Read More »Rancher fights, wins to get land back from BLM
Fighting for truth, justice and the Texas way. Sounds like a job for Superman! And the Man of Steel answered the call. But he wasn’t wearing blue tights and a red cape. Adorned in jeans, boots and …
Read More »Study: Texas Voter ID Law Kept Voters from the Polls
HOUSTON – Texas’ voter ID law kept some voters away from the polls in the 2014 elections, according to a new report. The Rice University study focused on the Latino-majority 23rd U.S. Congressional District, and …
Read More »EPA looks to slash carbon pollution via Clean Power Plan
HOUSTON – The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken a significant step to slash carbon pollution with Monday’s release of the Clean Power Plan. The plan calls for states to reduce emissions from power plants …
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