Newsbreak New Mexico 5pm Webcast 10/11/12

Newsbreak New Mexico 5pm Newscast with Vanessa Dabovich

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Labor: Hiring up in August, job openings down

New Mexico Business WeeklyU.S. employers advertised fewer jobs in August than July, but filled the most positions in three months — a mixed signal for the job market. The U.S. Labor Department said Oct. 10 that job openings dropped by 32,000 to 3.56 million in August. July’s openings were also revised lower. However, employers hired 4.39 million people in August – the most since May. According to an Associated Press report in the Albuquerque Journal, the number of available jobs has risen about 63 percent since the recession ended three years ago. However, it remains below the more than 4 million jobs a month advertised before the recession. Read More News New Mexico

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Wahlberg filming new movie in Santa Fe

Mark Whalberg
KOATA Hollywood A-lister is back in New Mexico to film his second major movie in the past few months. 
Mark Wahlberg and the rest of the crew were spotted shooting at some pretty high altitudes recently. They're filming a movie called "Lone Survivor." It's based on a book about Navy SEALs. Some of the scenes set in Afghanistan are being shot on top of Santa Fe Ski Mountain. Actors had to use ATVs or ski lifts to get up there.

The state's film office said the movie is employing about 200 New Mexico crew members and actors. Some crew members told Action 7 News that Wahlberg's a really nice guy and even cooked them burgers for dinner one night.
The production of "Lone Survivor" has faced a major hurdle. The Santa Fe County Sheriff's Office said someone stole thousands of dollars worth of propane and copper wiring that are used for special effects.
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Newsbreak New Mexico 12pm Webcast 10/11/12

Newsbreak New Mexico 12pm Newscast with Vanessa Dabovich

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NM wheat crops lowest since 1927

The number of acres of New Mexico wheat harvested for grain was the lowest this year since 1927 because of the ongoing drought. 
The Portales News-Tribune reports  a U.S. Department of Agriculture report shows 90,000 acres of wheat were harvested for grain this year. The previous low was 25,000 acres in 1927. 
The report shows the state's farmers brought in two million bushels of grain in both 2011 and 2012. In 2010 they harvested eight million bushels. 
New Mexico Agriculture Statistic Service deputy director Longino Bustillos says many farmers did not harvest this year due to lack of moisture.


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Fed and Labor Dep't. can't get their stories straight

Commentary by Jim Spence - Did the Obama administration cook the books on the unemployment data a week ago? Nobody has found the smoking gun yet, but we have recovered the dead body. There were only two places to look for the corpse.
The most obvious first step in the investigation of the murder of the truth was to peruse through what is known as the U.S. “workforce participation rate.” This was a logical place to look. But the fudge factor in this area had already been exploited to the max for almost four years. The rate has been dwindling for the entire Obama presidency. Amazingly, when people give up looking for work and drop out of the hunt for a job it actually LOWERS the unemployment rate the government can report. Only in politics can more people not even looking for work help slant perceptions.
Jim Spence (left)
The other place to look was at the data reported by Obama’s census workers. These are government workers who make phone calls to households and also make a few house calls to gather very subjective jobs data. If a census worker finds that someone did part-time work, like babysitting for one hour, their response can provide an excuse to provide data to the Bureau of Labor Statistics that classifies the person as suddenly being employed part-time. So ripe with the potential for manipulation is the system that the Department of Labor’s "Handbook of Methods" provides a detailed explanation of the subjective nature of the data it uses.
Last week the Obama administration released a report showing that during August and September, federal, state, and local governments added 602,000 workers to their payrolls. This report came on the heels of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke saying the economy stunk so bad he was initiating Quantitative Easing #3 to stem the downturn. Let's get this straight. The largest two-month increase in job creation in more than 20 years occurred while the U.S. Federal Reserve was executing an unprecedented effort to revive a horrible economy?
In fact, the total of 873,000 workers that the Obama officials claimed were added in September is the largest one-month increase in twenty-nine years. Did Obama administration officials working with their employees at the Census Bureau use the wide latitude available in both the questions and interpretation of the answers given to produce improvements in employment data that haven’t been seen in decades.....simply to strengthen the chances their man would be re-elected? You be the judge.

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NRA endorses Heather Wilson

The National Rifle Association is wading into New Mexico's U.S. Senate race, endorsing Republican Heather Wilson over Democrat Martin Heinrich. 
The NRA has a huge footprint in New Mexico, where hunting is a way of life and gun rights are gospel to many. 
Wilson is a life member of the NRA with a 100 percent rating for her 10-year voting record in the House of Representatives. 
Heinrich is an avid hunter and outdoorsman who's "A" rating from the NRA slipped to a "B" because of a couple of controversial votes in the House.



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Raton mayor resigns as protest to voting system

Charles Starkovich
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Dabovich News NM- Oh no! Trouble is brewing in my hometown!! 
A mayor of a northern New Mexico city has resigned over what he calls is the city's "discriminatory" form of government against Hispanic residents. 
Raton Mayor Charles Starkovich said in a letter Wednesday that he was resigning as mayor and city commissioner in protest to Raton's at-large voting system. Starkovich says the system violates the federal Voting Rights Act and that he plans to file a formal complaint with the U.S. Justice Department. 
City Manager Pete Kampfer says he was disappointed in Starkovich's resignation but agreed that Raton's system discriminates against the city's Hispanic residents. Kampfer says all three city commissioner live within blocks of each other in the same districts. 
The city has five districts and is around 60 percent Latino. Raton has one Hispanic city commissioner. 


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Newsbreak New Mexico 8am Webcast 10/11/12

Newsbreak New Mexico 8am Newscast with Vanessa Dabovich

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Gov. pushes for Mexican wolf relocation

New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez is urging federal officials to relocate a Mexican gray wolf pack linked to recent killings of cows in southwestern New Mexico
Martinez recently told U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in a letter that the Fox Mountain Mexican wolf pack in Catron County has "created significant concerns" and is affecting the "psychological well-being of families" in the area. She said livestock owners are feeling economic impact of losing cattle. 
The letter comes just as federal officials captured an elusive female Mexican gray wolf wanted for killing too many cows in the disputed area.


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