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Lt. Governor Diane D. Denish will meet with community members and leaders in Taos, Mora, Colfax, and San Miguel Counties. She will be meeting with community leaders and citizens about their ideas to improve state government and to address community needs and issues.

The local District Court is the pilot for a new judicial case management system.

The Fourth Judicial District Court, comprised of San Miguel, Mora and Guadalupe Counties, was recently designated as the first site for the software.

Odyssey, which replaces their older, less robust case management system, is produced by Tyler Technologies, a Texas-based software company, and is scheduled for statewide implementation beginning in November, according to a press release.

I haven’t taken a test in quite awhile. But I was required to take one before touring the state hospital earlier this month.

That’s right. To comply with federal medical privacy laws, the hospital wants to make sure no private patient information gets in the public’s hands.

As such, hospital employee Manuel Romero went through a couple of dozen pages worth of information about the laws and then asked that I take a test on the information he’d just given me.

I didn’t count all of my wrong answers, but I had my share.

San Miguel County Treasurer Alfonso Ortiz is assuring the public that the county hasn’t lost any money in recent weeks because of the troubles in the nation’s financial markets.

“We don’t have any investments where we lost dollars,” Ortiz told the County Commission last week. “If anything, we get good rates of interest, better than the state’s. That’s why we stay local.”

He also told the commission that the treasurer’s office is doing well with delinquent accounts, considering the declining economy.