Foster child taken from home stirs culture concerns
Steve a Hispanic Native American foster child lived in ten homes before finding Ana Pacheco and Kevin McCourt. After thirteen months with the couple, Namaste Child and Family Center removed him on June 21, placing him with an affluent Los Alamos family. The move sparked questions about cultural roots and responsibility. Steve participated in Los Nifios Bailadores and UNM Taos events before the separation.
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Steve
Ana Pacheco
Kevin McCourt
Pacheco
McCourt
Namaste Child and Family Center
Ple
Los Alamos
Namaste
Los Nifios Bailadores
University of New Mexico-Taos
Agnew
Namaste Child and Family Development Center
La Manga timber fight echoed through New Mexico town
Rio Arriba County Commissioner Morales linked current forest clashes to 1967 Tierra Amarilla events as Ninth Circuit injunction stalls the La Manga timber sale. The dispute affects grazing on about 60 percent of Carson National Forest allotments held by 350 families in Rio Arriba and Taos counties amid pressure from anti logging ads claiming forests yield more jobs.
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Oises Morales
Reies Tijerina
Tierra Amarilla
Carson National Forest
Coyote
N.M
National Forest
Morales
Rio Arriba
la Manga
Forest Service
Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals
San Francisco
Itaty
Rio ‘Arriba
Taos
Lauren Reichelt
Grant
Reichelt
New York Times
Santa Fe New Mexican
Santa Fe Based
Forest Guardians
Earth Island Institute
Ike DeVargas
la Compania
Molester's civil rights may be violated
The Eighth Judicial District Attorney's office planned to seek an extension of time for a preliminary hearing for Miguel Gia, accused of criminal sexual contact of a minor in Taos. A delay could keep him jailed until a grand jury meets, or release him if confinement would violate his civil rights. Gia was arraigned July 28.
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Eighth Judicial District Attorney’s Office
Miguel Gia
Taos
Gia
Donald Gallegos
County blasts Taos district over road plan
Taos County manager Samuel Montoya faulted the Taos Municipal School District in a July letter for not prioritizing Honda Seco road improvements needed to access a proposed northside elementary school. The district disputes the county’s reluctance while a statute-backed duty to fix the road is cited and a planning misstep is alleged.
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County Blasts
Taos County
Samuel Montoya
Taos Municipal
Montoya
Mark Hogan
Hogan Group, Inc
Hoxta
Ranchos de Taos jailer tied to drug find in desk
A Ranchos de Taos man who works as a hearing officer for the Penitentiary of New Mexico is under investigation after police found a substance possibly heroin in his desk in Santa Fe. No charges yet. evidence will go to the First Judicial District Attorney. A separate search yielded potentially damaging inmate files for sale.
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Ranchos de Taos
Penitentiary of New
Mike Toms
New Mexico Department of Corrections
Acosta
First Judicial District Attorney's Office
Santa Fe
Gallegos
Penitentiary of
Garcia
Mario Perez
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