KOB-TV reports protesters demanded that Albuquerque Public Schools get rid of the Junior ROTC program due to its high cost to taxypars with ROTC teacher salaries ranging from $54,000 to $107,000 during the budget crisis.
A Santa Fe judge will hear New Mexico’s first same-sex divorce case–the couple married when Sandoval County Clerk briefly issued marriage licences to same-sex couples in 2004, reports The Santa Fe New Mexican.
The New Mexico Business Weekly reports Albuquerque is the 57th most populous metropolitan area out of 940 in the United States with 874,004 people.
Despite recent progress throughout the school district, not one public school in Farmington met the federal Adequate Yearly Progress goals, reports The Farmington Daily Times.
The Carlsbad Current-Argus reports as more people transition from swamp coolers to central refrigeration energy use skyrockets prompting Xcel Energy, which servers Carlsbad and surrounding communities, to urge its customers to cut back on electricity use or else they may face power outages.