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Enhanced vaccine registration website

Monday, 04 January 2021 12:10 gallupsun

SANTA FE - The New Mexico Department of Health announced today (Jan. 4) that New Mexico’s vaccination website - vaccinenm.org - now enables users to complete comprehensive personal profiles. These profiles - which include personal medical conditions and employment information, along with other key data - allow the state to notify New Mexicans when vaccine doses become available in their area.

“Our highest priorities remain the same: ensuring that vaccine goes to those who are most exposed to infected people or infectious materials, and preventing vaccine from going to waste,” DOH Secretary-Designate Dr. Tracie Collins said. “Vaccinenm.org allows us to contact New Mexicans and...

Navajo Nation Gaming Enterprise begins layoffs

Sunday, 03 January 2021 12:52 gallupsun

The Navajo Nation Gaming Enterprise announced, it has been forced to temporarily layoff 1,120 team members, 776 of whom are Navajo tribal members.

In early November, NNGE leadership had warned about the possibility of layoffs. (See Gallup Sun VOL. 6, ISSUE 294, Nov. 13, 2020)

Brian Parrish, Interim CEO of NNGE said, "Due to the extended closure, since March 17, 2020, our business operations have been severely impacted and as a result, we must make very difficult financial and personnel decisions.”

“We remain focused on seeking every viable option to stabilize the salary and benefits of more than 1,000 Navajo families and to protect the $460 million investment the Nation has...

Keeping the Downtown Gallup business district safe

Thursday, 31 December 2020 07:30 By Beth Blakeman Associate Editor

Leaders focus on solutions

A brainstorming group meeting to improve the quality of life in Downtown Gallup, has been gathering every couple of weeks since October to address some of the city’s more stubborn challenges.

Francis Bee, executive director of the Gallup Business Improvement District is one member of the group.

He talked to the Gallup Sun, Dec. 15 about Gallup’s downtown struggles with the numerous people who visit to do business and find themselves unable to get home.

“We don’t have enough police to accommodate the 20,000 to 30,000 people who come here to do their shopping,” he said.

“Our downtown is very small,” he pointed out. “So if you have half a...

Legal nonprofit seeks to help prisoners in Gallup, across state

Thursday, 31 December 2020 07:29 By Kevin Opsahl Sun Correspondent

The New Mexico Prison & Jail Project announced its intention to sue the New Mexico Corrections Department for alleged violations of the state’s Inspection of Public Records Act on the same day it launched, Dec. 10.

NMP&J Project was created to provide more lawyers to help the state’s prison population.

The group’s first piece of litigation alleges the corrections department failed to follow IPRA, and asks for previously requested records, which include documentation on whether the agency made policy changes in determining what constitutes an exemption to public records. NMP&JP also wants $100 per day in damages from the day the nonprofit asked for the records until the...

Luján receives coronavirus vaccine

Thursday, 31 December 2020 07:28 Staff Reports

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Following the advice of the Attending Physician of the U.S. Congress, Congressman Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., the U.S. House Assistant Speaker, received the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine.

“This week I was pleased to see that health care workers were the first to be vaccinated against COVID-19 in our state. As the first New Mexicans [to] receive the coronavirus vaccine, I have a responsibility to lead by example and show my constituents that this vaccine is safe and effective. There is nothing to fear about getting vaccinated to protect yourself from this deadly disease,” Luján said. “However, vaccination is only one tool in our kit to combat the COVID-19...