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From KOB-TV.com - (AP) - With New Year's Eve fast approaching, Gov. Susana Martinez and others are continuing their push to get New Mexicans to put down the bottle if they have any plans on driving. Martinez will be at a DWI checkpoint in Albuquerque late Thursday to share her message. However, the push for awareness and tougher laws started earlier this fall after a pre-holiday spike in fatal drunken driving accidents. The governor and anti-DWI advocates are planning to push a series of legislative measure next year that include a statewide vehicle seizure program and increased penalties for repeat offenders. Read more
Gov. Martinez pushes for tougher DWI laws
From KRQE-TV.com - An Albuquerque Northeast Heights gas station said two thieves stole thousands of dollars in gas from one gas pump. “It started at about 11:30 and it ended like at 2:30 a.m.,” said the gas station manger Johnny Bauer. For three hours on the night of Dec. 26 the manager of the Texaco on the corner of Lomas and Juan Tabo boulevards said two crooks pilfered hundreds of gallons of gas. “He actually opens the pump up and he removes and tampers with thing that allows it to flow after the counter has stopped,” Bauer said. The two men filled up a couple of barrels in the bed of the truck, once those are full, they took off. But they are not done yet. The two came back a second time, and it is the same routine. Finally they came back a third time. However on their final trip they showed up with two different trucks, each one loaded down with barrels. "They stole about 688 gallons from this pump itself in diesel and another 93 in unleaded,” said Bauer. The thefts were discovered the next day during a review of the overnight transactions. In order to start the pumps the crooks had to use a credit card. Bauer said the same card was used during all the thefts, and he hopes it leads officer to the fuel bandits. Bauer also believes the men in the video must have some sort of background in the gas business because they knew exactly how to break into the pump. Read more
Albuquerque Gas pump tapped for hundreds of gallons
From the Santa Fe New Mexican.com - Workers at businesses inside the Santa Fe city limits will earn more than $10 an hour beginning in March, according to an announcement today from the city's Economic Development Division. Santa Fe's minimum hourly wage will increase next year by at least 30 cents, based on changes in a federal index on the cost of living. While officials won't know the exact amount of the new wage until 2011 numbers are completed in mid-January by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, they already know that the current Santa Fe "living wage" of $9.85 an hour should have gone up by 1.4 percent this year — to $9.99. Last month, after inquiries from The New Mexican, Mayor David Coss said it appeared city staff had made an oversight in neglecting to adjust the wage this year as required by law when the regional Consumer Price Index shows an annual increase. Coss and the city manager decided this month not to pursue a retroactive wage change for workers, the mayor said Thursday, but to add the 2011 increase to the 2012 adjustment. Based on the first 11 months of the year, the wage will increase by an estimated additional 3 percent — taking it to between $10.22 and $10.32 per hour, according to estimates from Kate Noble, a city economic development specialist. Read more
Santa Fe announces minimum wage increase
By Michael Swickard - It has been quite a year. America started 2011 in severe financial crisis with far too much governmental spending. We end the year without any real effort by our government to deal with the crisis. Most politicians refuse to even admit there is a crisis. Europeans are several years ahead in their financial crisis. They are even more intentionally ignorant of the financial calamity. We could watch them and learn from their mistakes, but we do not. Two issues: what is really happening financially in our country, and secondly, that the politicians and the media are not being truthful. There will be a time in the future when these extremely bad actions will have to be redeemed by the next generation’s taxpayers. They will pay for political influence entirely consumed by this generation. At best they will be sullen, at worse, mutinous. Read commentary
Swickard: The truth about the year 2011
From ABC News - This year has been filled with its share of sudden and surprising divorces in the entertainment and political world, but this split may take the cake. A 99-year-old Italian man filed for divorce from his 96-year-old wife of 77 years after he found letters from an affair she had 60 years ago. The man, identified in court papers as Antonio C., discovered the letters exchanged between his wife and a former flame in an old chest of drawers days before Christmas, according to the Telegraph. He confronted his wife, Rosa C., who reportedly admitted to the affair, and tried to convince him to stick with their marriage. But despite the nearly eight decades that they spent building a life together, a scorned Antonio C., moved ahead with the divorce. (Guess he never heard of “let bygones be bygones.”) The letters were the latest woes in the couple’s long marriage during which they had five kids, 12 grandchildren and one great-grandchild together. Read more
Man, 99, divorces wife of 77 Years over 60-year-old affair
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