Alcohol awareness: Teens spread message they hope will stick
Posted: 2/3/2012, 10:00 PM Mountain time
"Providing alcohol to minors is illegal." That message, stamped on neon green and orange stickers, was affixed to more than 250 beer cartons in the liquor department at Santa Fe's Walmart Supercente ...

Reading bill advances despite cost concerns
Posted: 2/3/2012, 10:00 PM Mountain time
Gov. Susana Martinez's reading intervention, remediation, and retention bill ran into some snags Friday when members of the House Education Committee raised questions about the cost, the definition o ...

Branding may fall short of federal requirements
Posted: 2/3/2012, 10:00 PM Mountain time
One thing stood between a Southern New Mexico dairy farm and a financial catastrophe -- a brand. But under a new proposed federal rule for tracing livestock shipped between states, the brand alone w ...

Local news in brief, Feb. 4, 2012
Posted: 2/3/2012, 8:00 PM Mountain time
Student transfer time for SFPS Santa Fe Public Schools will accept student transfer requests for elementary school students from Feb. 6 to Feb. 17. The lottery for these students will take place at 5 ...

Religious group sues for building rights
Posted: 2/3/2012, 10:00 PM Mountain time
The organization that successfully challenged the federal government's confiscation of its sacramental, hallucinogenic tea is suing the Santa Fe County Commission for blocking its efforts to build a t ...

Americans Elect cleared for ballot
Posted: 2/3/2012, 8:00 PM Mountain time
Americans Elect — a nonpartisan organization that will nominate a presidential ticket by way of an online "convention" -- submitted enough signatures to be on this year's general election ballot ...

Winter storm gives drivers headaches
Posted: 2/3/2012, 8:00 PM Mountain time
A winter storm took a quick sweep through Santa Fe on Friday morning, leaving more problems than snow in its wake. Santa Fe police received 51 calls regarding motor-vehicle crashes Friday morning be ...

Bill would provide funds to struggling drug courts
Posted: 2/3/2012, 10:00 PM Mountain time
Over the past half year, Jerome Block Jr.'s very public struggle with substance abuse put a spotlight on Santa Fe's drug court. The former Public Regulation Commission member recently was sent to pr ...

Legislative roundup, Feb. 4, 2012
Posted: 2/3/2012, 10:00 PM Mountain time
Days remaining in session: 12 Clifford confirmed: The Senate on Friday unanimously confirmed Gov. Susana Martinez's appointment of Tom Clifford as secretary of the Department of Finance and Administ ...

University lobbyists among session's big spenders
Posted: 2/3/2012, 10:00 PM Mountain time
It's common that lobbyists for various industries with business before the Legislature pay for parties, receptions meals and gifts for lawmakers during the session. While that's true of the current ...

Trail Dust: A historical labor 82 years in the making
Posted: 2/3/2012, 8:00 PM Mountain time
I first heard the name Juan Domínguez de Mendoza in the fall of 1958. My first year in graduate school, I had signed up for a history course titled the Spanish Southwest at The University of Ne ...