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Grammy award winner Carly Pearce will headline 2024 Music Fiesta
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – The lineup for the 2024 Music Fiesta has been announced. Grammy award winning artist Carly Pearce will headline the event at Balloon Fiesta Park. Music Fiesta will be Saturday, October 12. Pearce is a Grammy, CMA and ACM winner known for many hit songs including “Truck on Fire” and “We Don’t Fight […]
Weak in Review: July 31
And just like that, parents across the city feel like that Ben Affleck meme. Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham stopped by three cities for her public safety townhall tour. Or as we call it, the “Call your lawmakers and tell them to get their act together” tour. A citizen’s...
Daily Postcard: First Confirmed Nesting Of Hooded Warbler In New Mexico Spotted Recently Along Reservoir Road
Fledgling Hooded Warbler perched on a branch last week along the reservoir road in Los Alamos. This is an amazing bird record, the first ever confirmed nesting of this species in New Mexico (the closest place where they normally nest is far eastern Texas). This exciting story has been unfolding since June 22 when the first male was detected. He continued to be found in the same area for over two weeks until July 10 when a female was spotted, gathering food and returning to the same bushes repeatedly. It was clear that she had been there all along, quiet and sneaky, building a nest and incubating eggs. She continued to be seen gathering food in the area for several more days, with the male singing nearby. On July 14 a second male was heard and seen in the vicinity, causing some temporary confusion, but he was soon gone. Finally, on July 22 this fledgling was found with the female, she was gathering food for it, and the male was still singing about 200 yards away. The last day any Hooded Warbler was seen in the area was July 25, so they are probably done and have moved on to other areas. Photo by Michael Smith.
New Mexico lawmakers hear talk on AI technology, transparency measures
SANTA FE, N.M. (KRQE) – With artificial intelligence on the rise, so is concern about whether it might inadvertently discriminate against people. “I’m not here to trash talk AI, it can do amazing things and I think that at its best, it really can make, I think it can make society fairer. I think it can […]
New Mexico gets federal approval to pursue more broadband funding
(The Center Square) - New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham announced that the state obtained final federal approval to pursue $675 million in federal grant funding to expand the state's broadband access. “The Biden-Harris administration’s $675 million investment in New Mexico will help transform our digital infrastructure,” Lujan Grisham said in a statement. “This funding empowers New Mexico to bridge the digital divide and create equal opportunities across the state, especially for our rural and tribal communities.” ...
Governor’s push to combat violence misses important ingredient
As Democratic Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham barnstorms New Mexico to push her public safety agenda and listen to New Mexicans about how to make their communities safer, one contributor to violence isn’t mentioned much. Alcohol. Lujan Grisham has made combating violent crime her signature issue of 2024, going so...
NM school district, power utility sue FEMA, alleging unfair hurdle gets in way of fire compensation
A school district and electrical cooperative in Mora County allege in a lawsuit that the Federal Emergency Management Agency is putting an unnecessary burden on them as they seek compensation for the biggest wildfire in New Mexico history. The Mora Independent School District and the Mora San-Miguel Electrical Cooperative suffered various losses in the Hermits […]
Medicaid reinstates coverage for thousands of New Mexico children
NEW MEXICO (KRQE) – New Mexico will reinstate Medicaid coverage for about 21,000 children in the state. Many of the children were disenrolled after requests to verify eligibility were left responded. Almost 4,000 of those children are between the age of zero and six, those children will now have continuous Medicaid enrollment until the month they turn […]
Supreme Court rules on Patrick Howard case, sets new hearing
The New Mexico Supreme Court kicked back a highly-criticized ruling for a former teacher convicted of sexually assaulting a student in 2017. Patrick Howard, a 61-year-old former agricultural sciences teacher and Future Farmers of America advisor at Las Cruces High School, is due in court on Aug. 1 after the state’s high court found that a Las Cruces judge should reconsider Howard’s suspended probation. Justices took up the case after the New Mexico Attorney General filed a petition requesting the court to reconsider the suspended probation and remove the case from the 3rd Judicial District Court.
LANL Foundation Announces Dr. Denise Montoya As Board Chair, Welcomes New Members
Newly-appointed chair of the LANL Foundation Board of Directors Dr. Denise Montoya is a distinguished leader with a career-long commitment to serving the community. She currently serves as the Chief Executive Officer of the New Mexico Home Builders Association, following an esteemed career in public service that spanned nearly three decades, primarily in higher education as an executive leader and educator. Courtesy photo.
TUES: Housing looms large in governor’s Albuquerque town hall, + More
Housing looms large in governor’s Albuquerque town hall - Austin Fisher, Source New Mexico. At the second of a series of town hall meetings on Monday night, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham heard from members of the public for six hours. In an auditorium at Central New Mexico...
Bill Engel was once the Commander of the White Sands Missile Range. Now he spends his days competing on the senior amateur golf circuit
It’s possible that nothing has ever been so good for Bill Engel’s golf game as learning a second language. Engel, now 77, spent most of his 33-year career in the Army as a couple-times-a-month-player but for a short period in 1988 when he was assigned temporary duty to the Monterey Language Institute for refresher training in Spanish. The one-on-one classes lasted each day from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m., at which point Engel was free to spend the rest of the day as he pleased. Naturally, he chose the golf course. “For 30 days, I committed to hitting 500 balls a day...
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