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By City of Santa Fe Mayor Alan Webber signed Emergency Proclamation IV in continued response to the spread of COVID-19. The Governing Body will have the opportunity extend the Proclamation of Emergency on Wednesday, July 29, 2020 for another 60 days. This is the fourth emergency proclamation that has been …

By Family Policy Alliance  What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas” – so the saying goes. And in this case, what happened in Vegas really must stay there. In June, Nevada’s governor extended his “Phase II” reopening order through July. The problem is that the order treats Nevada’s casinos better …

By Santa Fe County  The Santa Fe County Fire Department is developing a Community Wildfire Protection Plan (CWPP) update. A CWPP is a plan designed to identify and mitigate wildfire hazards to communities and infrastructure located in the wildland-urban interface (WUI), which is an area located between wildland and human …

By NNMC Northern New Mexico College senior Evelyn Juarez has been named as one of ten students nationwide to receive the 2020 Academy for Research, Clinical, and Health Equity Scholarship (ARCHES) and participate in a fellowship program with the Georgetown University School of Medicine. Juarez, who is pursuing a degree …

By Santa Fe County Santa Fe County Board of County Commission (BCC) will vote on proclaiming August as Women’s Suffrage Month and ask for recognition and honor of the 100thAnniversary of the 19th Amendment of the Constitution. Commissioner Anna Hansen will introduce the proclamation and be virtually joined by three …

By Arnie Leshin  Warning, be careful, but the Miami Marlins weren’t careful enough, and so Major League Baseball has fallen where it was trying to avoid. Where the team found itself stranded in Philadelphia Monday instead of flying home to Miami after winning two of three in the City of …

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 With the onset of the summer monsoons and decreasing fire danger, the Carson, Cibola and Santa Fe National Forests are rescinding Stage 2 fire restrictions, including the ban on campfires, at 8 a.m. Wednesday, July 29, 2020. The forests implemented Stage 2 restrictions, which also included a “hoot …

By Arnie Leshin  Not time yet to get overconfident, overexcited, and looking to the new post-season look. If you are, you’d best first check out your team’s early look, because after the opening 3-4-game weekend of the restored 60-game regular-season, there’s not an undefeated club. Everybody is either 2-1 or 1-2. …

By Mayor Alan Webber  In the first 8 months of fiscal year 2020, which began in July of 2019, Santa Fe truly enjoyed the best of times. Every part of our local economy was booming. We saw strong and steady growth in new housing starts in all parts of the …