U. S. Congresswoman expresses support for wildlife corridor protection

TAOS, N.M. - The headwaters of the Rio Grande and the surrounding landscape comprise one of the most intact and vital wildlife habitats in the nation. Protecting the wildlife migration corridors that thread through this special area of Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado will require coordinated work from people from many different backgrounds and interests, panelists said at their summit Aug 20.

Scores of people including tribal officials, federal land managers, state wildlife biologists, conservationists and ranchers gathered in Taos for a day-long discussion of how to identify and protect wildlife...

Two-day seminar for veterans and non-veterans

LAS CRUCES, N.M. - Registration is still open for the Southern New Mexico Small Business Success Seminar Aug. 27-28 in Las Cruces at the DACC Workforce Center/Room 121, located at 2345 Nevada Ave.

This is a free two-day business development seminar for any entrepreneurial-minded individual interested in starting their own small business. Military veterans are strongly encouraged to attend.

The seminar is presented by the New Mexico Veterans Business Outreach Center, the U.S. Small Business Administration’s New Mexico District Office, the New Mexico Small Business Development Center, SCORE New Mexico, the Procurement Technical Assistance...

A high-ranking immigration court official has issued a requirement to judges in New York City that deportation cases involving families “MUST BE COMPLETED WITHIN 365 DAYS,” according to documents obtained by Reveal. The order may violate due process, as well as long-standing rules that protect families from deportation before their cases have been adjudicated fully.

The discovery of Assistant Chief Immigration Judge Daniel Daugherty’s email to judges illustrates the inner workings of one of the nation’s busiest immigration courts, days after the Department of Justice filed a petition to disband the immigration judges union.

The department and union have been battling over...

Year 1:

County Detention Center                                                                          $900,000

Manuelito Canyon Bridge and Road Improvements                         $3 million

Bridges - County-wide                                                                               $8.65 million

Williams Acres Water System Improvements                                    $3.75 million

County Road 43 - Superman Canyon...