New Mexico News

“We regret we must eliminate service into Albuquerque and appreciate the support the community has given us over a long period of time”

New Mexico Business Weekly - by Megan Kamerick NMBW Staff Mesa Air Group Inc. has decided to suspend service in Albuquerque as of the end of December. via Bizjournals

“Radon is invisible and odorless and often goes undetected”

State of New Mexico ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT Office of the Secretary Harold Runnels Building 1190 St. via New Mexico Environment Department

“There appear to be consistencies across the modern home brew and Tarahumaran pots”

Ancient Pueblo Indians brewed their own brand of corn beer, a new study suggests, contradicting claims that the group remained dry until their first meeting with the Europeans. via Fox News

“He served the people. He busted his tail and he always served the people. What he did was always in the best interest of the people.”

Senate President Pro Tem Ben Altamirano, the longest-serving member of the Senate, has died at his home in Silver City. via The Associated Press

Monthly benefits are going up Jan. 1 for New Mexico families receiving various types of public assistance. via KOAT.com

New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson issued the following statement this morning after the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto. via The Swamp

Freedom New Mexico file photo Eastern New Mexico took severe damage from a March 23 tornado, killing two and destroying many homes and businesses. via Portales News-Tribune

“Oil companies are not thrilled with my candidacy, so those numbers, they've got to be another candidate's. Probably a Republican's.”

A student at Pembroke Academy challenged Bill Richardson about his past dealings with oil and gas companies yesterday, and Richardson challenged her right back, calling the information she cited "not right" and ... via Concord Monitor

It might be mid-January before passengers can fly from Farmington to Albuquerque. via KCBD-TV Lubbock

“We have to become more efficient and cut labor costs significantly.”

A handful of farm laborers are busy at work on a warm day in mid-November, helping harvest 140 acres of Cecil Conklin's red chili crop. via The Daily Herald

State of New Mexico ENVIRONMENT DEPARTMENT Office of the Secretary Harold Runnels Building 1190 St. via New Mexico Environment Department

The state Department of Health has announced an initiative aimed at attracting and attaining more health care professionals in rural areas. via KOB-TV

“He was extremely level-headed and genuine.”

Democratic presidential candidate Bill Richardson said Wednesday that if he wins the nomination, he would stock his cabinet with members of the public. via SalemNews.com, Salem, MA

New Mexico Human Services Secretary Pam Hyde on Monday presented state legislators with "drastically reduced" cost estimates of a universal health coverage plan introduced by Gov. via EMaxHealth

“It's not up to me to tell someone what morals to teach their teenager, and it's not up to the federal government either”

New Mexico won't seek federal abstinence-only sexual education funds More School City State Health Secretary Alfredo Vigil says there has never been a consensus among the experts that abstinence-only sexual ... via Albuquerque Tribune

“No one realizes how many thousands of people this has hurt”

A Lovington judge has rejected an effort to kill the state's cockfighting ban, but the head of a gamefowl breeders' group said an appeal is likely. via North County Times

“Senator Clinton's comments are a stunning flip-flop -- she's been saying she would keep troops in Iraq for five years, until 2013, and now she comes up with an inconsistent, incredible turnaround”

I just got a phone call -- unprompted -- from Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, a Democratic candidate for president, blasting Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton for saying she would withdraw nearly all American ... via The Huffington Post

“It's like building a wall. We have to put one brick on top of another”

Until now, residents in southern and eastern New Mexico did not have a single hospital that was designated as a trauma center where they could get treatment for more serious injuries. via Las Cruces Sun-News

“We believe that this debate isn't happening right now, and it needs to happen”

Democratic presidential hopeful New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson launched a new ad campaign to bolster his candidacy by bringing Iraq to the forefront again. via Daily India

“When they came out with that list of seven, we were outraged by the duplicity of it”

Conservationists want more than promises from the Bush administration to correct the damage caused by political interference in endangered species protections. via News Observer