Author Archives: Pat Davis

The New Mexico Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department is accepting applications for the state’s Clean Car Tax Credit. According to a press release, the tax credit, enacted during the 2024 legislative session, offers an income tax credit of up to $3,000 to individuals or businesses who purchase or lease an electric vehicle, plug-in hybrid […]

I am writing this column from another state where I am currently undergoing a course ofmedical treatment. When this medical issue arose earlier this summer, I was told flat outby my Albuquerque primary care provider that getting a consult to this particularspecialty in New Mexico’s largest city would take a year. So here I am […]

The Placitas Community Library will host a Book Talk event this month with physicist Tom Sanford. Sanford will discuss his book, A Whirlwind History of the Universe and Mankind: From the Big Bang to the Higgs Boson at 2 p.m. Oct. 12 at the library. According to a release, Sanford’s book is “essential to anyone […]

“I want to stop and smell the roses,” he said. “If you want it, you can have it. Otherwise I’m going to shut it down.” That was newsman Hal Rhodes, founder of New Mexico News Services. He had started NMNS in 1997 to provide opinion columns to New Mexico newspapers. When Hal was ready to […]

Submitted by Beth Dowling, Rio Rancho Who is Cindy Nava, Candidate for Senate District 9?As a constituent of Senate District 9, I have been doing research before Early Voting begins on October 8th.  I looked into this race after attending the candidate forum, sponsored by the Rio Rancho Observer and Sandoval County Regional Chamber.  This […]

A district court judge Monday indicated he’ll make a ruling by the end of the month in a lawsuit over a proposed change in school calendars. State District Court Judge Dustin K. Hunter in Roswell heard motions for summary judgment from the New Mexico Public Education Department (PED)  and the schools suing it over a […]

A district court judge Monday indicated he’ll make a ruling by the end of the month in a lawsuit over a proposed change in school calendars. State District Court Judge Dustin K. Hunter in Roswell heard motions for summary judgment from the New Mexico Public Education Department (PED)  and the schools suing it over a […]

A district court judge Monday indicated he’ll make a ruling by the end of the month in a lawsuit over a proposed change in school calendars. State District Court Judge Dustin K. Hunter in Roswell heard motions for summary judgment from the New Mexico Public Education Department (PED)  and the schools suing it over a […]

A judge on Monday afternoon set guardrails around certain evidence and witness testimony in the upcoming attempted murder trial of a man who shot a climate activist at a protest over a controversial monument in northern New Mexico. First Judicial District Court Judge Jason Lidyard ruled on five disputes between state prosecutors and defense attorneys […]

The new special master for the Rio Grande water fight between Texas and New Mexico is asking for an update from all the parties in a scheduled Oct. 23 hearing in Denver. The U.S. Supreme Court appointed a new judge to supervise the case in July, following the high court’s June ruling that dismissed a […]