Albuquerque mayor defends PAC use amid ethics probe
Mayor Martin Chavez defended the ABQPAC funds used for his family travel and city business while promising refunds for employees and contractors donations. New Mexico Vecinos United filed an ethics complaint seeking his removal, saying the PAC violated ethics rules.
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Abqpac
New Mexico Vecinos United
Japan
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Valdez
Mexico
C.M. Dziak
PAC
Vecinos United
Marty Chavez
Madrid
Guadalajara
Dziak
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Madrid Opposes Campaigning At Courthouse Early Voting
New Mexico Attorney General Patricia Madrid disagrees with a secretary of state ruling that allows campaigning at early voting sites inside courthouses. Officials debate whether courthouses count as polling places and how close campaigning may occur within 100 feet, with county politics and court-house material removals prompting potential challenges.
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Abqpac
Dziak
Patricia Madrid
PAC
Hess Yntema
Madrid
Santa FE
Secretary of State
State Elections Bureau
Denise Lamb
Lamb
Stuart Bluestone
Sam Thompson
Sandoval
Gayland Bryant
Bryant
Thompson
Todd Hathorne
GOP Central Committee
Vigil Giron
Hathorne
Debbie Hays
New Mexico Faces Imminent Nursing Crisis Says Health Official
Health officials in Albuquerque warn New Mexico faces a severe nursing shortage with vacancies near double the number of graduates. The strategy groups aim to double annual graduates to 1,000 by 2005. Key ideas include closing earnings gaps, creating a clinical teaching institute, and boosting higher education funding to prioritize nursing.
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New Mexico
University of New Mexico
Health Sciences
R. Philip Eaton
Eaton
Bruce Hamlett
State Commission On Higher Education
New Mexico prisons face overcrowding and possible out-of-state moves
New Mexico corrections officials report about 400 male inmates over capacity in medium security. plans include relocating inmates within the state, transferring some to out-of-state facilities in Arizona Texas and Colorado, and releasing 140 nonviolent drug offenders with six months left if allowed by the Population Control Commission.
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Western
Grants
Las Cruces
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McKinley County
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Gary Johnson
Hollywood
Albuquerque
Shane Harrison
Esther Beckley
Hollywood Video
Donatelli
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