Former Current-Argus publisher to be honored
CARLSBAD — A former Current-Argus publisher is among three men who are being honored this year with the William S. Dixon First Amendment Freedom award.
Sammy Lopez, now publisher of the Daily Times in Farmington, will receive the award along with the city of Albuquerque’s chief lawyer and an Albuquerque attorney who has worked on several of the state’s most important government access cases in recent years.
The Dixon awards are presented by the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government in recognition of outstanding work on behalf of the First Amendment and open government. Along with Lopez, the others being recognized are Albuquerque City Attorney Robert M. White and Gregory P. Williams of the law firm of Dines & Gross.
They will be honored at FOG’s annual dinner, scheduled for Friday at the Albuquerque Hyatt.
Justice Charles Daniels of the New Mexico Supreme Court also will speak. His talk is entitled, “The First Amendment: Freedom’s Foundation.”
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