NMAA Announces Eldorado Student Jackson Simpkins Named NFHS Section 6 Heart Of The Arts Award Winner
Jackson Simpkins
NMAA News:
ALBUQUERQUE — The New Mexico Activities Association (NMAA) is proud to announce that Eldorado High School student Jackson Simpkins has been named a National Federation of High Schools (NFHS) Heart of the Arts Award winner for Section 6.
Simpkins is being honored for demonstrating extraordinary resilience and passion for music in the face of a life-changing diagnosis.
After being diagnosed with Functional Neurologic Disorder, Simpkins lost mobility and began using a wheelchair. Rather than stepping away from school activities, he remained fully engaged. Read More
Op-Ed: Ethical Rules Apply To Judges And Judicial Candidates In New Mexico
By Karl Reifsteck
Director
Administrative Office of the Courts
The founders of our nation viewed a fair, impartial, and independent judiciary as a cornerstone for the government they envisioned 250 years ago when breaking free from the British monarchy. The founders wanted judges who followed the rule of law rather than the King’s commands.
Under our nation’s foundational principles, judges today decide legal disputes based on the law and the facts of a case. In doing that, judges must set aside their personal views and remain unwaveringly focused on the law. The requirement for fairness Read More
FBI: Las Cruces Man Pleads Guilty To Drug Trafficking And Felon In Possession Of Firearms
FBI News:
ALBUQUERQUE — A Las Cruces man pleaded guilty to federal drug and firearm offenses after agents recovered methamphetamine, fentanyl, and firearms during a search of his residence.
According to court documents, on April 3, 2024, FBI and Metro Narcotics Task Force agents executed a search warrant at the residence of Enrique Alan Ramirez, 46, in Las Cruces, New Mexico. During the search, agents recovered four firearms and over 68 grams of methamphetamine and over 55 grams of fentanyl. Ramirez, who has a prior felony conviction for possession with intent to distribute methamphetamine, Read More
Weekly Fishing Report: March 30, 2026
By GEORGE MORSE
Sports and Outdoors
Los Alamos Daily Post
The State Game and Fish Department was stocking trout all across the state last week. The Winter Stocking Program in Southern New Mexico is still being done and more locations in Northern New Mexico are being stocked now. The Winter Stocking will end in March.
The Department stocked a total of 33,520 rainbow trout weighing 14,054 pounds.
It looks like there will be one of the weakest spring runoffs in memory this year. The snowpack is already disappearing, and the weather has been unseasonably warm and dry. This is reflected in streamflow Read More
Posts From The Road: Arizona Agriculture
Rows and Rows: Green fields from a winter crop grow along the roadway in Yuma County. The beautiful green fields and sunny blue skies were a nice change from winter scenery. Photo by Gary Warren/ladailypost.com
Migrant Bus & Workers: Thousands of Mexicans are bused across the border into Yuma County to work in the crops. The workers have visas for temporary foreign agricultural workers and are legal workers on the farms. The workers are bused back across the border every day after work. Shown is a typical white bus used to transport workers to the crop sites. Thousands of seasonal workers also Read More
Luján, Murkowski, Schatz Reintroduce Bipartisan Legislation To Expand And Modernize Native Housing Programs
U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján
U.S. SENATE News:
WASHINGTON, D.C. — U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján (D-N.M.), a member of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, and U.S. Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaiʻi), Vice Chairman of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, introduced the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Modernization Act of 2026 (NAHASDA Modernization Act), comprehensive legislation to reauthorize and modernize federal housing programs serving American Indians, Alaska Natives, Read More
Scenes From No Kings 3.0 Rally At Ashley Pond Park
Several hundred people gathered at the No Kings 3.0 Rally on Saturday at Ashley Pond Park. Los Alamos Indivisible hosted this third No Kings Day of Peaceful Action: ‘a day dedicated to nonviolent protest, unity, and community solidarity’. The event included live music and speakers: Abel Sayre (Los Alamos High School): Iran and the Middle East, Christine Chandler (State Representative): New Mexico Legislature’s efforts to protect immigrants, Lena Salazar (Interim Policy Director, ACLU of New Mexico): How legal resistance is protecting New Mexicans and Rumi Sauñe (Navy veteran): A veteran’s Read More
Tales Of Our Times: Jointly Reported Facts Are Mightier Than ‘Bipartisan’
Tales Of Our Times
By JOHN BARTLIT
New Mexico Citizens
for Clean Air & Water
Jointly Reported Facts Are Mightier Than ‘Bipartisan’
We live in times of zealous palaver about being “bipartisan” and “working together.” Exactly what these words include is unclear. In times past, New Mexico Citizens for Clean Air & Water pursued ideas of our own that might qualify. Our goal was simpler and mightier than “bipartisan” or “working together.” We found mutual ways of telling missing parts of the whole story.
Over time, we learned that industry is no different from the cross section in every activity.
Daily Postcard: El Santuario De Chimayo In Spring
Daily Postcard: Nestled in the village of Chimayo along the High Road to Taos sits a national historic landmark, El Santuario de Chimayo. The sanctuary is well known for the unusual legend of its creation and as a present-day pilgrimage site. It receives almost 300,000 visitors per year and has been called ‘no doubt the most important Catholic pilgrimage center in the United States.’ It is also often called the ‘Lourdes of America’ for its magical healing soil. In the small prayer room next to the sanctuary is a round hole filled with this soil. In fact, many come to the church in pursuit of this soil, Read More
Final Update On 4,111 Acre Old 66 Fire In Quay County
New Mexico Forestry Division News:
Update: Fire response crews succeeded in stopping forward progression of the Old 66 Fire yesterday evening, and containment today is at 50 percent. The fire’s acreage is 4,111 acres after more accurate mapping.
Crews are engaged in mop-up actions on the north and southeast sides of the fire footprint and will work to extinguish interior heat. One structure was impacted by the fire, but the threat to structures has now passed for the area.
Local residents should take caution and avoid the area as crews are still engaged in suppression activities. This will be Read More
