Catches of the week: Bill Evans Lake: Max Murillo, 12, of Bayard, caught an 18-inch largemouth bass that weighed almost 3 pounds July 3. He was using a Rapala crankbait. Eagle Nest Lake: Ella Baca, 4, of Veguita, caught her very first fish July 7. She was trolling a Panther …
Read More »Heinrich Secures Major Gains For N.M. Military Installations, National Labs, High-Tech Manufacturing Economy In FY18 NDAA
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, announced provisions he secured in the fiscal year 2018 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that support New Mexico’s men and women in uniform, military installations, national laboratories, the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP), …
Read More »“The Ballad of Buster Scruggs” to Film in New Mexico
By The New Mexico Film News | June 30, 2017 SANTA FE, NM – New Mexico Film Office Director Nick Maniatis announced today that the feature length series of Westerns, “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” produced by Annapurna Pictures, will begin principal photography mid-July through the end of September, largely …
Read More »NM Counties to Receive $38.5 Million in PILT Funding for Schools, Roads, Local Police
WASHINGTON – Today, U.S. Senator Tom Udall, ranking member of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee that oversees funding for the Department of the Interior, and U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich, a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced that counties across New Mexico are receiving more than $38.5 million through the 2017 …
Read More »Environment New Mexico Clean Water Repeal
Environment New Mexico | June 27, 2017 WASHINGTON, DC – Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Scott Pruitt proposed repealing the Clean Water Rule, which restored federal protections to half our nation’s streams and thousands of wetlands across the country. Environment New Mexico’s Nicole Larson issued the following statement: …
Read More »Environment New Mexico and Environment America launch multi-million dollar outreach effort to defend environment
Submitted by Environment New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico– Today Environment New Mexico and Environment America announced a $7.5 million public education campaign to convince a majority of U.S. senators to stand up for a cleaner, healthier future, and oppose a return to a dirtier, more dangerous past. Here in New …
Read More »Lujan calls Trump tax plan “a dream-come-true” for wealthy Americans
Lawmaker calls tax plan “a dream-come-true” for the wealthiest Americans while doing little for middle class or working families (WASHINGTON, DC) – Congressman Ben Ray Luján (D-NM) today issued the following statement after the White House released the outline of President Trump’s tax plan: “Instead of focusing on middle-class and …
Read More »Heinrich Slams Trump’s Executive Order Targeting National Monuments In New Mexico
WASHINGTON, D.C. (April 26, 2017) –Today, U.S. Senator Martin Heinrich (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, issued the following statement on President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at reviewing national monument designations made by his predecessors, including the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks and Rio Grande del …
Read More »Food King & Lowe’s Grocery Stores to offer dollar-for-dollar match to SNAP shoppers using EBT
50% off New Mexico grown fruits and vegetables when purchased with EBT Family owned grocery business committed to fresh, health food at the best-possible prices Food King and Lowe’s grocery stores are giving shoppers in Santa Fe and Albuquerque new motivation to eat more locally grown fruits and vegetables this …
Read More »New Mexico Fishing Report
By Bill Dunn/Department of Game and Fish | April 11, 2017 Catches of the week Bosque Redondo: George Romero of Clovis caught a 29-inch catfish April 7. He was using night crawlers. Pecos River: Josiah Roybal, 5, of Pecos, caught a 17-inch rainbow trout April 9. He was fishing near the Dalton …
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