Today's News

State funding for the West Las Vegas school district’s breakfast program has dried up, an official said last week. It’s not clear whether the programs will continue next year.

The district was hit with a 2.5 percent reduction in the 2008-09 allocation, the district’s budget director, Doug Hendrickson, told the school board at a meeting.

Board President Christine Ludi asked if there was a way to make sure the program continues.

U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., was in Las Vegas Friday to open a constituent office that will be headed by Pam Garcia.

The office is on the the Highlands University campus across the street from Ilfeld Auditorium. Lujan said the office is one of six he is opening in the 3rd Congressional District.

“We are opening up offices throughout the district that will be accessible to the constituency and in areas that we can provide a high level of service. We have offices opening in Santa Fe, Tucumcari, Gallup, Farmington, Rio Rancho and Las Vegas,” Lujan said.

Whenever there’s an error in the Optic, some readers likely  think we messed up. And they holler, “Hire a proofreader!”

But isn’t it possible that we merely plant a typo here and there? Why? To give readers something to talk about and us something to write about. Like now.

In late 2006, then-Las Vegas City Councilman Michael Gallegos was the subject of a recall election, but he beat it back.

Now it turns out the recall election may have been illegal in the first place. An expert in municipal government told the council last week that the city wasn’t supposed to have provisions to recall an official in the city charter.

Randy Van Vleck, an attorney for the New Mexico Municipal League, said that the city is not a home-rule community, so it is limited by state law about what it can have in its charter.