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• Former state treasurer once again a free man

  —What's The Word with Peter St. Cyr

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  Released from federal custody last Friday, Robert Vigil still faces three years of probation and has to finish paying off $97,000 in fines.
  
  The former state treasurer was convicted on one count of attempted extortion in 2006. The 56-year old Vigil served just over [...]

  Posted: December 16, 2009, 6:57am EST
  by Peter St. Cyr

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• The Lobbyists Of Santa Fe: Who's On The "A" List? Plus: On The Scene In Historic Old Town

  —New Mexico Politics with Joe Monahan

  Don't expect New Mexico's top lobbyists to be front and center in next month's legislative session. The state faces a severe fiscal crisis and Roundhouse veterans say a good lobbyist knows when to be seen, and this is not one of those times.
  
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  Posted: December 16, 2009, 12:33am EST
  

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• US Plan for Wild Horse Round-Up Faces Opposition

  —The Westerner

  A government plan to round up and relocate thousands of wild horses in the West faces opposition from advocates who say the proposal is inhumane and unnecessary. At a hearing near Reno, two dozen advocates pressed the U.S. Bureau of Land Management's National Horse and Burro Advisory Board Monday for [...]

  Posted: December 08, 2009, 5:55am EST
  

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• Ely mayor charged with entering BWCA illegally

  —The Westerner

  Ely Mayor Roger Skraba faces three federal counts of wilderness violations in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness. Skraba, 48, was charged Nov. 9 with three misdemeanors in U.S. District Court in Duluth. One is for entering the northeastern Minnesota wilderness without a permit, another is for possessing or using [...]

  Posted: December 03, 2009, 5:16am EST
  

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• Helping Mayor Berry Solve $24 million deficit

  —Errors of Enchantment

  According to the Albuquerque Journal this morning, the City of Albuquerque faces a $24 million deficit this year. First and foremost, thank you Mayor Marty for leaving the incoming Mayor and the taxpayers of Albuquerque such a nice lump of coal in our (early) Christmas stockings. Unfortunately, there are no [...]

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• Waffle-pocalypse!!! An open letter to President Obama

  —The Westerner

  It seems our nation faces the dire consequences of a waffle shortage and Jason Sheehan wants the Obama administration to do something about it. He has written a letter to the President proposing a National Strategic Waffle Reserve and blesses the National Maple Syrup Reservoir currently under construction.
  
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  Posted: November 23, 2009, 4:38am EST
  

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• Trip’s morning reading

  —New Mexico Independent

  In national news, about one million laid-off workers will see their unemployment benefits end in January unless Congress acts quickly to renew existing federally paid extensions, according to a new report and legislators and state officials, the New York Times reports.California faces a nearly $21 billion budgetary shortfall — [...]

  Posted: November 18, 2009, 11:00am EST
  by Trip Jennings

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