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Today's News

  • Official to speak to council after all

    City officials are reopening the lines of communication with a federal housing official whom they previously said they didn’t want to see.

    Floyd Duran, a top official in New Mexico for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, is set to speak to the City Council at its meeting at 5:30 p.m. today.

    In October, one of Duran’s former subordinates accused Duran of trying to “torpedo” the Las Vegas housing authority because he believes local politicians are inherently corrupt.

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  • Madrid takes staffers to task

    In some of his toughest words on the issue, City Councilman Morris Madrid says city staffers have no excuses for leaving the council out of the loop in changing the purpose of $1.2 million in state money.

    Madrid mentioned only one city staffer by name in an interview about the money last week — George Du Four, the city’s utilities director.

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  • City likely to increase heating bills

    City officials expect to see an increase in residents’ heating bills.

    City utilities director George Du Four asked the mayor and the City Council for permission to negotiate prices with natural gas provider Zia Natural Gas Company during a recent meeting.

    The request centered on a discussion of the increase in the city’s cost of natural gas by Zia and the current cost to customers to avoid operating in a deficit.

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  • No. 2 Lady Dons take care of Thoreau

    West Las Vegas Lady Dons basketball coach Jose Medina is, as the Wide World of Sports theme once said, “covering the globe,” or in this case, covering the state and giving his team a sneak peek of some top Class 3A teams.

    On Saturday West ventured northwest to play one of the top teams in District 1-3A, Thoreau. The Lady Dons had three girls score in double figures in a 58-49 win and improve to 8-1.

    West led 13-4 at the end of the first period and got six second-period points from Geneva Rivera to increase its lead to 31-21 at the half.

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  • Highlands' McPeek 'lone star' in Texas event

    Luke McPeek, New Mexico Highlands' 197-pounder, came home with the Outstanding Wrestler award for upper weight divisions among non-Division I grapplers in this past weekend's Lone Star Duals in Grand Prairie, Texas.

    Nineteen schools participated in the event. Highlands, coached by Doug Moses, competed head to head against Oklahoma City College (a 32-12 loss), Central Oklahoma (a 42-6 loss) and Wisconsin-Stevens Point (a 39-9 loss).

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  • DWI suspects must go to hospital

    City and state police are questioning a policy at the San Miguel County jail that requires medical clearances for all DWI offenders.

    The jail warden counters that his facility is simply following a national standard.

    The police agencies said it would take longer for officers to process the offenders, keeping them off the streets to catch still more. The medical clearances require that officers take offenders to the hospital.

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  • Only one DWI arrest over New Year’s

    A DWI saturation patrol on New Year’s Eve yielded one drunken driver, an official says. A checkpoint two days later didn’t result in any DWI arrests.

    The state police enhanced its anti-DWI efforts last week as it usually does during the New Year’s holiday.

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  • LETTER: Israel a bully, loud-mouthed?

    The Israeli journalist Gideon Levy a few years ago referred to Israel as a “a loud-mouthed bully who shouldn’t be provoked into anger ... Not that the bully’s not right — someone did harm him.” Following the attack on Gaza this past week, Levy added, “Once again, Israel’s violent responses, even if there is justification for them, exceed all proportion and cross every red line of humaneness, morality, international law and wisdom…. Hamas brought this on itself and on its people, but this does not excuse Israel’s overreaction.”

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  • EDITORIAL: County steps in; state is missing in action

    Recently a group of residents from the Bernal area showed up at the San Miguel County Commission meeting to ask the county to enact stricter rules for wind farms.

    The county deserves great credit for enacting a wind turbine ordinance in 2003, long before most other counties, but it now appears that updating that ordinance is in order.

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  • City may require more of tenants

    City Council members are considering a change in the city’s ordinance that would put more of the burden for filling out required forms for utilities on the tenant and the city.

    That would be a change. As it stands, landlords bear most of the burden, much to their chagrin.

    During public input at a recent council meeting, landlords took the city to task on the city’s landlord-tenant agreement that requires that landlords fill out form with their tenants and then take it to customer service, sometimes making multiple trips.

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