Inspectors with the State Department of Transportation investigated allegations of shoddy workmanship on Santa Fe’s roads as part of an ongoing investigation in to Santa Fe’s Public Works department and Advantage Asphalt, reports KOB-TV.
The state now faces a $300-million dollar deficit and the state is short about $150 million for the 2010 fiscal year KRQE-TV reports today.
The Alamogordo Daily News reports Gallup Mayor Harry Mendoza defended his role in a bitter feud with publisher Bob Zollinger when he plead no contest in a fistfight case with Zollinger.
Santa Fe Mayor David Coss and three city councilors are looking at how to amend the city’s more lenient indecent exposure ordinances after activists rode through the town partially nude on June 19, reports The Santa Fe New Mexican
The Farmington Daily Times reports Farmington, Aztec and Bloomfield filed a lawsuit against the Office of the State Engineer for the right to use 20,600 acre feet of water from the Animas-La Plata project.