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By Family policy alliance Over the past few weeks, the U.S. Supreme Court handed down three significant decisions involving the First Amendment freedom of religion. In Espinoza v. Montana Department of Revenue, the Court ruled that a discriminatory Montana rule prohibiting students from using tax-credit scholarships at religious schools violated …

By SFNF In response to COVID-19, the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) moved to a no-contact process to sell personal-use fuelwood permits over the phone and deliver them by postal mail. Since June 1, customers have had to call one of the SFNF offices to purchase a fuelwood permit. Starting …

By SFNF A bear encounter on the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) last Friday went terribly wrong, leaving a Los Alamos woman in the hospital with a collapsed lung, several broken bones and multiple bites. Although relatively rare, close encounters between humans and large predators like bears and mountain lions …

By Arnie Leshin  Take me out to the ball game is a no-no this time around. No fans in the stands and COPID-19 coronavirus restrictions will be applied, but the game will return despite this. After a delay of nearly four months, the 2020 Major League Baseball season will begin …

By NM Game and Fish The Department is continuing to adapt our ways of working to conserve wildlife for all New Mexicans. Through the COVID-19 pandemic, Department biologists and conservation officers continue to conduct wildlife surveys, contact anglers and OHV recreationists and stock fish in open waters throughout the state. …

By SFNF Start Date:  July 19, 2020 Cause:  Lightning Size:   5+ acres Location:  Jemez Ranger District, 1 mile east of Aspen Peak and approximately 4.5 miles south of the community of Cochiti Mesa. The Colle Fire is located inside the burn scare of the 2011 Las Conchas Fire. Containment:  0%. …

By SFNF It was a busy weekend for dispatchers and firefighters on the Santa Fe National Forest (SFNF) with the onset of the southwestern monsoon season and the accompanying lightning strikes. The Santa Fe Dispatch Center confirmed 12 active lightning starts on the SFNF since Friday with an additional two …

By Arnie Leshin  Just attending to the restart of professional sports in the United States is a concern, with all having to address the same needs. While Major League Baseball makes its initial pitch to officially start play on Friday, the National Basketball Association officially gets under way on July …

By Santa Fe County Santa Fe County will reinstate the solid waste punch card system at all CountyCollection Centers beginning Saturday, August 1, 2020, ending the Notice of Action implemented on April 20 to suspend punches until further notice. Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, all county wide centers have remained open and …

By Arnie Leshin  I first met Don Mattingly in late September of 1982 when I was covering the New York Yankees. He was called up from Triple A Columbus, played in only seven games, and was happy to be back with his friend, Steve Balboni, and be assigned the locker …