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Medical Board looking at late term abortion case
Tyrone Watson arrested
NM chile crops stabilizing
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Vanessa Dabovich
Experts speaking at the state's annual
chile conference held Tuesday in Las
Cruces reported that 9,600 acres were harvested in
2012. That's a slight increase from 2011.
New Mexico Chile Association President Dino Cervantes says acreage is now
stabilizing. That's despite continuing challenges from foreign competitors,
plant-killing diseases and irrigation water shortages.
NM chile crops stabilizing
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Vanessa Dabovich
Santa Fe working on domestic partner benefits
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Vanessa Dabovich
A proposal being developed by Santa Fe officials would
require contractors doing work for the city to provide their employees with
domestic partner benefits.
The Albuquerque Journal says it has yet to be
determined how the requirement being proposed by Councilor Patti Bushee would
work.
City Attorney Geno Zamora says his office is working with Bushee to
prepare an ordinance for consideration by the City Council.
Bushee calls her
proposal the answer to an equity issue for gays and lesbians as well as anybody
who chooses not to marry.
Santa Fe working on domestic partner benefits
House takes up Spaceport liability bill
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Vanessa Dabovich
Lawmakers are trying to finish work on a proposal that
supporters say will help New Mexico
develop a commercial space travel industry.
The House is expected to consider a
bill today to limit the liability of spacecraft manufacturers and their
suppliers. An identical measure has passed the Senate and Republican Gov.
Susana Martinez backs the proposal.
Virgin Galactic plans to fly tourists into
space from New Mexico's spaceport and a 2010 law protects it, as a space travel
operator, from being sued in most cases by passengers or their families if
there is an accident during a flight.
The legislation will extend liability
limitations to suppliers and manufacturers of spacecraft and their components.
House takes up Spaceport liability bill
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Legalizing, taxing marijuana could create $100M in revenue, NM senator says
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Michael Swickard
From KOAT-TV.com - We're foolish to keep trying to spend all this public money stopping it when we could be regulating it, making sure it wasn't abused, and also using it as a way of gaining revenue," Sen. Gerald Ortiz y Pino said.
Pino is writing a memorial that would direct a committee to research the impacts of legalizing marijuana.
Pino is writing a memorial that would direct a committee to research the impacts of legalizing marijuana.
He said he wants to find out what its effects would be on revenue, crime and long-term consequences. If that research comes back positive, then he'll propose a constitutional amendment, which would allow voters to decide whether pot should be legal.
Other lawmakers said they already know how they would vote if it comes to that. "We're going too fast. We haven't implemented medical marijuana in our state, and to legalize it is too fast; too quick for me," Sen. John Ryan said. Read more
Legalizing, taxing marijuana could create $100M in revenue, NM senator says