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Weekend snow benefit for ski areas across NM
The weekend storm brought enough snow to help most
The big winner was Ski Santa Fe, which got hammered by 16 inches of new
snow. The ski area is now able to announce a limited opening on Saturday. Coming
in a close second was Angel Fire and Sipapu, which both received 14 inches of
new snow.
While Angel Fire has been busy making snow and was already planning
to open on Friday, the added snow will help conditions. Resort officials say
before the storm they were talking about allowing mountain biking on some
trails because of a lack of snow in some areas. That is not the case anymore.
Sipapu
is already open and bustling. Things are also looking up at Taos Ski Valley
Ski
areas farther south were not as fortunate. Ski Apache above Ruidoso only got 3
inches of new snow.
Cell phone use restricted in state vehicles
Gov. Susana Martinez’s administration
has scrapped a plan that would have banned all cellphone use for state
employees driving government-owned vehicles, after several agencies complained
it would have hurt productivity.
Instead, the General Services Department will
continue to allow workers driving state vehicles to talk via hands-free
devices, but will bar such drivers from texting, typing or reading emails while
behind the wheel.
The proposed ban on cellphone use while driving was one of 48
new rules for state vehicle usage rolled out by the General Services Department
in October. Other proposed rule changes included stricter oversight of fuel
credit cards, the requirement that the Governor’s Office must sign off on any
out-of-state trips and language that would explicitly bar employees from using
state vehicles for personal reasons.
A total of 221 accidents in state-owned
vehicles occurred during the most recently completed fiscal year, though the
agency said it’s unclear how many of those involved cellphone use.
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Pacheco wins House seat
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Border arrests in Deming rise
Deming Border Patrol officials say
agents saw a jump in arrests of undocumented immigrants along its patrol area
of the New Mexico-Mexico border.
The Deming Headlight reports that an official
from the Deming Border Patrol station says that in the second half of 2012,
compared to the same period in 2011, there was a 28 percent increase in arrests
of undocumented immigrants in the area. He says 253 more people were arrested
from June to December in 2012 than in 2011.
Meanwhile, statistics for Operation
Border Jaguar, which includes two outposts in New Mexico
State Corrections Dept. seeing release delays
The state
Corrections Department's new system of bouncing all inmate release documents to
a central office for approval often has resulted late releases for parolees.
The
Albuquerque Journal reports that officials say parolees have been walking out
of prison about two weeks past their expected release dates ever since the
system changed in early September. Those delays have prompted as many as 100
calls a day from inmates' upset relatives.
The move to send release approvals
to the department's central office in Santa
Fe
A recent statewide
audit of state prisons identified about half a dozen early or late releases,
including one man who was released eight years too early.
Gov. asks for Real ID extension
After Jan. 15, New Mexicans
will be unable to get on board a plane with only a state driver's license. New
Mexicans will be required to use their passports for identification. The Real
ID Act, signed into law in 2005, will go into affect next year and prohibits
the use of a New Mexican driver's license as identification to board an
aircraft.
Gov. Susana Martinez is an opponent of the controversial state law
allowing undocumented immigrants to receive a New Mexico Martinez said her
office has "sent a letter that asks what will be the status of New Mexico
The governor hopes to extend the deadline so the state legislature will have
enough time to possibly repeal the driver's license law.
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Sunland Park investigation inconclusive
New Mexican wolf lawsuit
Paul Pacheco wins House seat
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Paul Pacheco officially wins House seat
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The board on Monday certified the
recount results, which showed Pacheco defeating Democrat Marci Blaze by 78
votes. That's up from a 66-vote margin before the recount. The district covers
parts of Sandoval and Bernalillo counties.
Unofficial recount returns had
indicated a 79 vote margin, but Bernalillo
County Albuquerque
U.S. Fish and Wildlife hit with another Mexican wolf lawsuit
The Center for Biological Diversity sued the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service yesterday
over the agency’s rejection of a 2009 scientific petition from the Center that sought
classification of the Mexican gray wolf as an endangered subspecies or
population of gray wolves.
Mexican wolves are currently protected as endangered
along with all other wolves in the lower 48 states, with the exception of those
in the northern Rocky Mountains and Great Lakes
region.
In filing the suit, the Center said specific protection for Mexican
wolves is needed to ensure their recovery. Both lawsuits aim to help
Mexican wolves recover.
The Center hopes to force the agency to implement the
reforms and complete a new recovery plan, in the works since as far back as
1995.
Sunland Park investigation inconclusive
New Mexico Attorney General Gary King
has ruled that a probe into whether a troubled
The Las
Cruces Sun-News reports that the office issued its opinion last week about Sunland Park
Councilors voted in August to appoint Javier Perea as Sunland Park
The city also has been rocked by a number
of arrests linked to allegations of voter fraud.
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