Maintenance Delays Highlight New Mexico DOT Challenges
The New Mexico Department of Transportation faces a growing funding gap and maintenance backlogs. With a $835 million budget split roughly half from federal funds and half from state money, maintenance lags threaten basic safety needs and future reconstruction. The DOT emphasizes band aid fixes while sizable projects like the Embudo Channel repair remain unfunded.
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National Opinion: NASA’s Tech Legacy and Budget Debate
The editorial credits NASA with advancing everyday tech from cellphones to GPS and argues for space exploration as a national priority. It notes Apollo and shuttle era innovations enabling medical, computing, and transportation advances while addressing critics who want NASA funds redirected to social programs and jobs.
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Curiosity Mars rover lands after seven minutes of terror
NASA marks the Curiosity landing as a precise, eight month voyage triumph. The mission aims to analyze rocks and soil for life building blocks and assess if Mars ever hosted microbes. The $2.5 billion project seeks to spark renewed space exploration interest amid prior shuttle cutbacks.
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New Mexico TV Roundtable Questions Policy Discourse
KNME TV's weekly New Mexico discussion features Gene Grant with regulars Dan Foley and Sophie Martin. The host moderates a free flowing debate on critical state issues while critics mock national pundits and mock the candidates.
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Doonesbury Dear Doctor K about beta blockers
Beta blockers are a key drug class for hypertension and abnormal heart rhythms. They also protect against future heart problems after heart attack or heart failure. They work by slowing heart rate and force, and by blocking hormones that accelerate the heart. There are three types with varying duration and brain access.
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Roswell CPA Anthony D Arrezzo Elected to AICPA Membership
Anthony D Arezzo of Roswell has been elected to membership in the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. A 24 year old senior accountant with May Taylor and Co Professional Corp he is licensed in New Mexico and Texas. He is a 1984 Eastern New Mexico University honors graduate and 1980 Alamogordo High School graduate. He serves as treasurer of the New Mexico Society Roswell Artesia Chapter and as educational vice president and past president of Roswell Noonday Toastmasters.
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