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From KOB-TV.com - By: Shaun Griswold, KOB.com - San Juan County officials are reevaluating its take home vehicle policy after one county employee took his work car on vacation. Our media partners at the Farmington Daily Times report David Stark, former chief of security at the San Juan Adult Detention Center took his girlfriend to Las Vegas, Nevada in his county owned vehicle. Stark resigned from his position on Thursday to avoid a termination hearing. Read more
San Juan County Jail official resigns after Las Vegas fling in county vehicle
From the Santa Fe New Mexican.com - WASHINGTON (AP) — by JIM KUHNHENN - Drawing a bright line with congressional Republicans, President Barack Obama is proposing $1.5 trillion in new tax revenue as part of his long-term deficit reduction plan, according to senior administration officials. The president on Monday will announce a proposal that includes repeal of Bush-era tax cuts for the wealthiest taxpayers, nearly $250 billion in reductions in Medicare spending, $330 billion in cuts in other mandatory benefit programs, and savings of $1 trillion from the withdrawal of troops from Iraq and Afghanistan, the officials said. Read more
Obama to propose $1.5 trillion in new tax revenue
From the El Paso Times.com - by Marisela Ortega Lozano - As victims of violent crimes in Juárez keep piling up, Chihuahua and Juárez authorities launched the 7th edition of Chihuahua International Festival, in Juárez, Saturday afternoon. "We want to throw again Juárez image throughout the world," Chihuahua's Governor César Duarte said in a statement. "The human being must be told apart from other species on Earth trough fine arts," Duarte said. The governor kicked off the festival alongside with Juárez Mayor Héctor Murguía and several officials, at Paso del Norte Convention Center in Juárez, near Las Américas international bridge. "The world must be aware about a Juárez image of life, values, full recovery, and harmony through culture and arts," Duarte said. "We are making a bet on this festival for a hope of a better future for this heroic city," he added. As Duarte spoke, several gunmen shot at a truck driven by a Juárez policewoman Saturday afternoon. The pick up truck, driven by officer, 33-year-old Rubí Ruiz Velásquez, who died, crashed into a cinder-block wall in southeastern Juárez during the attack. Read more
Chihuahua officials aim to improve tainted Juárez image through festival
From the National Post - As the bad economic news continues to emanate from the United States — with a double-dip recession now all but certain — a reckoning is overdue. American journalism will have to look back at the period starting with Barrack Obama’s rise, his assumption of the presidency and his conduct in it to the present, and ask itself how it came to cast aside so many of its vital functions. In the main, the establishment American media abandoned its critical faculties during the Obama campaign — and it hasn’t reclaimed them since. The media walked right past the decades-long association of Obama with the weird and racist pastor Jermiah Wright. In the midst of the brief stormlet over the issue, one CNN host — inexplicably — decided that CNN was going to be a “Wright-free zone.” He could have hung out a sign: “No bad news about Obama here.” The media trashed Hillary. They burned Republicans. They ransacked Sarah Palin and her family. But Obama, the cool, the detached, the oracular Obama — he strolled to the presidency. Read more
Rex Murphy: The media’s love affair with a disastrous president
From Gateway Pundit.com - No, this is not Iran or Pakistan were talking about…This is happening right here in the United States! The City of San Juan Capistrano, California is demanding that a Christian couple purchase a permit to hold a Bible study group in their home. They’ve already been fined. The couple insists, “There’s no singing or music. It’s meditative.” World Net Daily reported: Chuck and Stephanie Fromm already have been fined $300 for holding Bible studies for their friends at their home, and they face the potential for additional fines of $500 for each study held, according to a legal team taking their case to court. The newest conflict over Bible studies in homes in America arose in San Juan Capistrano, Calif., where city officials say city code section 9-3.301 prohibits religious organizations in residential neighborhoods without a conditional-use permit, a sometimes very expensive procedure. The code cites “churches, temples, synagogues, monasteries, religious retreats, and other places of religious worship and other fraternal and community service organizations.” But a Bible study in a home? Read more
City Fines Christians $300 For Holding Bible Study In Their Home
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Albuquerque Has It's Own Buffett
Union and Liberal Activists Urged to Gear Up
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Open for Business: Joblessness Rate Continues to Fall in NM Bucking National Trend
With a strong consensus in Santa Fe that the Special Session is slow moving, Representative Brian Egolf decided to offer his views on the process. It would seem tht Egolf resents the fact that most of the GOP was growing tired of standing around while Ben Lujan and Michael Sanchez bottled up all legislation and dominated re-districting. Accordingly, Egolf decided to quote from the book of Matthew in the Bible on the floor of the House. We actually think the Book of Job would have been more appropriate for the GOP, but what the hell.
And it was with a great sense of irony that we ran across a U.S. Department of Labor report on Thursday that showed that New Mexico ranks 3rd amongst all states in improper payments of unemployment claims. According the federal government findings, New Mexico’s Department of Workforce Solutions shells out more than $60 million a year for bogus claims. And of course this gaudy total does not include a claim being paid to a disgraced former state Corrections Department employee who plead guilty to 30 counts of taking bribes. It would seem under current laws in the state if you lose your job because you were stealing from the government, you can simply go to the Department of Work Solutions and get your replacement cash there. Thus far we have not seen a single politician on either side of the aisle call for an immediate and complete overhaul of a state department that discourages work, rewards idleness, and punishes every employer and working person in the entire state. Workforce Solutions? Hardly.
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