Repaired Taos Visitor Center reopens after flood damage
Taos Town Council will tour the Visitor Center Thursday after repairs from a New Year’s Eve pipe burst flooded parts of the building. Belfer Restoration and town staff replaced desks walls and plumbing and resealed tile. The center’s reopening coincides with returning spring break travelers and gradual tourism recovery.
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Taos
Convention Services
Ron Yachinich
Belfer
New Mexico
Yachinich
Taos Pueblo
Taos County Sheriff ID's Man Killed in Trailer Fire
Taos County Sheriff's Office identifies 62 year old John Sanchez as the man who died in a Ranchos Trailer Fire on February 9. Undersheriff Ed Romero says fingerprint match with FBI records confirmed his identity and that the death is ruled an accidental death due to extensive thermal burns from a fire started while lighting a fire with flammable liquid.
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Taos County
State Office of
Sanchez
House OKs raising retirement age for state workers
The New Mexico House passed HB 644 by 37 to 32 raising retirement age to 55 for state workers and teachers with less than five years in PERA or ERB and adjusting cost of living, exempting police and firefighters. Debate highlighted pension funding gaps and partisan splits, as unions criticized the measure and supporters urged action to shore up PERA and ERB before sending it to the Senate.
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New Mexico House
House
Mimi Stewart
Albuquerque
Andy Nunez
Hatch
Stewart
Public Employees Retirement Association
PERA
Educational Retirement Board
ERB
Carter Bundy
Council 18
American Federation of State
Bundy
Luciano
Lucky” Varela
D-Santa Fe
Varela
Debbie Rodella
Despasiola
Conrad James
State Senate
House panel kills bill to open MVD records to public
The House Appropriations and Finance Committee tabled House Bill 406 by a 9-5 vote, blocking a measure to make state motor vehicle databases available to any requester at cost. Supporters cited open data goals while critics cited fiscal impact and a NICUSA contract tied to data sales.
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House
House Appropriations and Finance Committee
Taxation and Revenue
Demesia Padilla
Padilla
Joe Cervantes
D-Las Cruces
State General Services Department
NIC
Kansas Company
Foundation For Open Government
Sarah Welsh
New Mexico
Welsh
The
New Mexican
Ing
MVD
Nicusa Inc
Nicusa
NIC Inc
Colorado
Kansas
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