New Mexico Mercury

City warns business about chemicals seeping into Rio Grande

SITE Santa Fe’s plan to expand draws concerns

Hispanic heritage no secret in New Mexico

Forest Service says media doesn’t need permit

Navajo Nation gets $554 million from U.S.

PNM reaches deal on solar power

Augustin Plains Ranch water case crucial to protecting New Mexico’s rural water

On September 22, we asked the New Mexico Supreme Court to order the State Engineer to dismiss a massive speculative water appropriation application from Augustin Plains Ranch, LLC. We live next door to the Ranch, which has spent almost eight years trying to appropriate a massive amount of water in Catron County.  This attempted appropriation threatens the towns, ranches and homes of the entire San Augustin Plains region, all of which are wholly dependent on wells and groundwater.

Bruce Frederick of the New Mexico Environmental Law Center (NMELC) filed a petition on our behalf for a writ of mandamus.  In the petition, we ask the Court to compel the State Engineer to “promptly” reject the Ranch’s most recent application for 54,000 acre-feet of water per year...

Revelations about New Mexico Poverty

Hey, guess what-- New Mexicans are poor! Isn’t that astounding?  I am gobsmacked. The 20.8 percent poverty increase between 2012-13 here has absolutely nothing to do with our governor. You see, poverty is very very complex, and our governor is very very simple. Remember that please.

One issue that keeps us back is small business finance. There’s only one place to get a business loan in New Mexico, and that’s Payday Loanster. Payday Loanster is owned by some good Arizona friends of the governor. The nice folks there at the local Loanster office will help you learn what signing in blood is all about...

Legislative report blasts Human Services over behavioral health

IRS serves warrant at data center containing county and state records