ACLU Warns on Arizona Immigration Law Travel Alerts
The ACLU and affiliates in Arizona and 26 other states warn that Arizona's immigration enforcement law may prompt racial profiling and warrantless arrests before its July 29 effective date. Officials deny profiling while training programs stress that race cannot guide enforcement.
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American Civil Liberties Union
New Mexico
Kevin Wood
Arizona Department of Public Safety
NM appeals court upholds limits on activists regulating groups
A 10th U S Circuit panel ruled New Mexico cannot regulate two Albuquerque community organizations as political committees under the Campaign Reporting Act. The decision supports free speech rights and defeats disclosure requirements for New Mexico Youth Organized and the SouthWest Organizing Project.
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Albuquerque
10Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
New Mexico
SouthWest Organizing Project
U.S. Supreme Court
10Th Circuit
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Bobby Rodriguez
New Mexico tax amnesty draws early inquiries and cash
More than 2,000 New Mexico residents have inquired about tax amnesty with about 200 already applying. The program lets businesses and individuals pay unreported taxes from before 2010 to avoid interest and penalties, not covering debts already assessed or audits. The deadline is Sept. 30 and expected revenue is about 7 million dollars.
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New Mexico Taxation and Revenue Department
Phillip Salazar
Taxation and Revenue
Tax Department
New Mexico
State General Fund
Salazar
Rick Homans
Federation of Tax Administrators
New York
Pennsylvania
Illinois
New Mexico Enacts Tax Hikes and Double-Dip Restrictions
New laws take effect in New Mexico raising taxes on cigarettes and many goods and services while curbing pension double dipping by retirees who return to public work. The 5.125 percent gross receipts tax and a cigarette tax increase aim to balance the budget. limits apply to state and local workers except legislators and some educators.
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Santa FE
Public Employees Retirement Association
States
District of Columbia
New Mexico
The
Tax Foundation
Washington, D.C
Denise Lamb
Elections Bureau
Lamb
Public Service of New Mexico seeks input on energy future plan
PNM begins a yearlong public process with a Rio Rancho meeting and nine other kickoff sessions statewide in July to gauge customer views on energy mix including renewable, nuclear, coal and gas sources. It asks how much customers will pay for different power mixes and the role of efficiency programs. Bears attack New Mexico leads to one bear killed and another sought after campers and a goat were injured at Philmont Scout Ranch. The state wildlife agency set a trap for a bear causing a tent swipe at 5:40 a.m. and later killed another bear after it carried a goat toward the Philmont museum. A separate incident near Albuquerque involved a bear dragging a young woman from her tent in the Sandia Mountains. Church wall collapses in Lemitar endangers historic La Sagrada Familia Mission Church. Workers nearly inside when cliffside adobe church, built in 1831, collapsed after restoration work. The church had been closed sinceOctober due to falling plaster and buckling floors.
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RIO Rancho
New Mexico
Public Service Company of
PNM
Philmont Scout Ranch
State Department of Game and Fish
Philmont Health Facility
Roman Catholic Archdiocese of
Santa Fe
la Sagrada Familia Mission
Lemitar
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