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2008 shaping up as a banner year for Dems

This is a very exciting period for the United States, and especially in New Mexico. After nearly 40 years, the Democratic Party has the opportunity to choose one person, the United States Senate. That someone Rep. Tom Udall.

Rep. Udall ran in two national elections used to the way our federal Attorney General. As Attorney General, he fought for tougher penalties for DWI and domestic violence. He always worked diligently for the country’s most vulnerable citizens. He helped to fill the gaps in the fundraising campaign and proximity to improve our laws of the State of laws to protect the environment.

As a member of Congress, he was able to plenty of ways to the federal budget of New Mexico, such as the financing of Cannon Air Force Base and employment. He assured the financing of the Confederation to promote the improvement of our highways, in order to facilitate access to the Internet in rural areas, the implementation of major projects and water quality improvement and access to health care in our country.

Rep. Udall has been recruited to meet the powerful House Committee. He always verfocht the causes of veterans, small businesses and rural communities.

Rep. Udall against the war in Iraq. He voted against the so-called Patriot Act. He made the fight to protect our freedoms and our Constitution.

Three’s a Crowd in New Mexico House Races

With all three of New Mexico’s House underway for members of the Senate, State, the three places in the house have opened a large number of policy holders of hope and the State, the final list of candidates for 3rd June primary colors.

On 17 March Before Convention winnowed the list of candidates to obtain at least 20 percent of the vote, to qualify for the June 3rd first ballot. However, the New Mexico allows candidates who are not qualified, while the Convention, a petition to their journey on the ballots, and the fields are still overcrowded.

Although the petition are now candidates on the ballot, the chances of winning appeared slim. No candidate is not required to qualify, in the pre-convention has never won the main part of its responsibility, New Mexico declared a political analyst Heath seeds of the house: “I believe that candidates must have a difficult time arguing credible unless they receive 20 ago cent in the Convention. ”

The field for the Senate seat retired Republican Pete V. Domenici Remained the same, with Republican Representatives. Heather A. Wilson and Steve Pearce compete with their parties against the appointment Democratic Rep. Tom Udall.

Below are the candidates House Race:

New Mexico’s District 1

Albuquerque Former Councilman T. Martin Heinrich and former Secretary-General of the State Health Michelle L. Grisham qualifies for democratic dialogue in the upcoming convention. They are now by the former Secretary of State - to-State Rebecca D. Vigil-Giron and Albuquerque lawyer Robert L. Pidcock, who succeeds seeking an order on the ballot.

Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White will have an impact on the Republican primary vote for State Senator J. Joesph Carraro. White won the pre-convention with 85% of the vote, while 15 Carraro, but the state legislature has passed a request for a contrast in June 3, in the first place.

The contest to replace Wilson Place 1st Congressional District is one of the most competitive in the country. CQ rate policy Race No clear favorite.

New Mexico’s 2nd District

Five Republicans are now competing for the GOP nomination for the Congress of Deputies 2 district, which is currently represented by Republican Steve Pearce, the rate policy CQ Republican People.

Three Republicans first qualified for the ballot: Aubrey Dunn retired banker, real estate agents Earl C. Greer and owner of the restaurant chain Ed Tinsley The New Mexico Secretary of State, upheld the petitions of two other candidates. The former mayor Hobbs Monty Newman, missing the cut-off of the Convention on the order of 1 percentage point, on June 3, ballots, as a businessman Greg Sowards.

Nobody petition to their names in the democratic elections are only the two candidates who have qualified are listed: Dona Ana County Commissioner Bill McCamley Lea County and former Commissioner Harry Teague.

New Mexico’s 3rd District

The tables are at the cross-Democratic Congress 3rd District, where Democrats have six candidates on their ballot papers, all of them ran in the pre-convention, but only two of them are qualified. Already on the ballot, R. Ben Lujan, the chairman of the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission and developers of Santa Fe Don Wiviott. They are funded jointly by the old Benny J. Shendo Jr., the former Secretary of State of Indian Affairs, the Santa Fe County Commissioner Harry B. Montoya, a former state Assistant Attorney General Jon Adams, the lawyer and Christian Martin.

Two Republicans are underway for the 3rd District Headquarters, which is currently held by Democrat Tom Udall. Both Marco Gonzales, a former aide Domenici, and Rio Rancho contractor is qualified 17th Dan March to the Convention and not more Republicans filed with them on the first ballot.

Former state Supreme Court justice dies

ALBUQUERQUE—Charles B. Larrabee, who was a New Mexico Supreme Court justice for five months in 1989, died March 29 at his Albuquerque home. He was 81.

A memorial service was not immediately scheduled.

Larrabee, a Republican, was appointed to the bench on July 11, 1989, by then-Gov. Garrey Carruthers.

He was the first Supreme Court justice chosen under New Mexico’s then new judicial selection system under which the governor appoints judges from a pool of candidates recommended by special nominating commissions.

Judges who are selected must run for the seat in the next general election.

Larrabee resigned Nov. 7, 1989, citing the demands of the job and his temperament, which he said kept him from campaigning for the job.

But fellow jurists at the time said Larrabee told them he suffered stress and depression and was under a doctor’s care around the time he quit.

Then-Justice Richard Ransom said at the time that Larrabee “addresses every job meticulously and with a great sense of responsibility.”

Larrabee was born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, and graduated from high school in Uruguay.

He enlisted in the Navy and served in the Pacific on the USS North Carolina during World War II.

Ex-guard seeks new plea in escape case

Amber Goff, a judge to change his plea at federal weapons expenses this morning, but his lawyer has kept a part of their agreement with prosecutors under seal.

US Senior District Judge Wesley Brown audition for 10 hours today to hear their case and decide whether or not the seal. Goff challenged in November on four federal weapons costs associated with the leak aboard two on October 28 of the El Dorado Correctional Facility.

Court records are normally available to the public, and the American authorities, the Supreme Court ruled that judges must find there is a “compelling interest” to close them.

In criminal cases, the high court has said court records can be sealed when details of the agreement is likely to jeopardize an ongoing investigation, open-ended questions, there is a Grand Jury, or threaten the safety of somebody.

A lawyer for The Eagle plans to argue that the public record.

Goff was a prison guard at the beginning of October. The authorities said she took over the flight of Jesse Bell and Steven Ford in the Butler County jail and fled with them to New Mexico.

His family said the mother of 23 years, the two acted threatened by the convict.

Alleged gun smuggling leader arrested in Tucson

PHOENIX (AP) - Arizona authorities arrested a man from Tucson, in particular, the leader of a smuggling network that supplied pistol drug cartel in Mexico with firearms.

Thursday, authorities announced the arrest of 23 years, Victor Manuel Varela Jr., the accused, the supply of the Juarez cartel Palomas, Mexico with rifles and pistols.

Tom manganese, a spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said Varela network illegally purchased weapons in Arizona, carries them to New Mexico, and then she took across the border.

Manganese, weapons has been said by members of the Juarez cartel in Palomas ongoing clashes with the drug cartels rivals, and with the criminal prosecution authorities.

Varela was sentenced Tuesday in Tucson a house.

Keep children safe on the Internet

The Internet offers a chance to literally the world of communication, cooperation and links with other people. Never before have as much information as easily accessible, to manipulate and to share it. The generation growing up in the midst of this media view of the rich potential of the routine and do not seem to be afraid to use. Electronic forms of communication: e-mail, chat rooms, instant messaging and telephony, social networks methods of choice for millions of human beings.

Unfortunately, young people are not always the best decision, while over the Internet, and this may be dangerous. These are adults who use the Internet and technology to use tools and loot on youth. Posent often the age of comrades, they turn to the Internet for children to turn in faith, they are just another new friend.

Young people are often not the sophistication to realize how the Internet makes it visible. Many young people with information on itself, on several occasions they weigh, or elsewhere in the near future.

What parents can do for their children from predators? What can they do to help them make good choices on the information given to them via the Internet a contribution? One of the best tools may use one of the parents is
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The conscience. Parents need to understand how their children to the Internet. The opening of a dialogue with them on this issue is a way to do so, it is practised on technology is another. There are many resources (via the Internet) to support their parents to learn how to navigate the Internet. Equipped with knowledge and skills, parents understand what their children when they surf the Web.

These are the general rules of thumb for parents to be their children on the Internet from a young age. Children should never personal data to third parties, they have the Internet. This, of course, the name and address, along with the information which would allow a clever adult, in order to know where they are. Children should not accept a person who filed electronically. There are many points of contact on the Internet for young people to safety oversight, children should be encouraged to keep them. Parents should also consider maintaining the use of information technology is limited to areas in the house, the public, especially for pre-teen and youth.

For adults, the rules regarding their use of the Internet should be similar to the one they now enjoy in the non-virtual world. Parents should be aware of where their children go and with whom. This does not necessarily ongoing monitoring of each interview (as well as in the real world), but a parent should be able to facilitate the access of their children or blogs networked social contributions, they worry. Years of adolescence must also warned that the information they are comfortable with their trading grandmother or most important in their school. This includes contributions of the Internet, text messages and e-mails. Once an electronic form in the universe of words and images may not be withdrawn.

Make Clickright.org click on the icon at the bottom of the home page (LCPS www.lcps.k12.nm.us.) and click on the link to participate in a program officially opened 20 LCPS Mars, the city of Las Cruces, New Mexico and the Attorney General’s office for the protection of children from pedophiles and inform children, parents and teachers about the possibilities for the children as if they are safer on the Internet.

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.”

Smokestack Injustice? Toxic Texas Smelter May Reopen

The large fireplace’s flashing red lights at night, you send the message that the freezing of hostels unique is not yet dead. The treatment and the old American Refining Company (Asarco), copper hostels in El Paso, Texas, was temporarily halted in May spewing toxins, but more and more confusing still the Paso del Norte, the border area.

The government and environmental groups, the debt of the 111-year-old cabin of the heavy air, soil and groundwater contamination. Yet, on Feb. 13, 2008, the factory was a new life, while three members of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) voted unanimously to grant five years Asarco air quality. The vote was to blame tingling hundreds of residents at the border had travelled from the capital of the country Austin TCEQ convince finally shut it down.

The air permit battle is only the latest chapter in the long history of controversy and housing Asarco, which is currently in possession of a Mexican company. Under a number of former owners of the facility deals with lead, zinc, silver and copper between 1887 and 1999.

Built near the banks of the Rio Grande, the hut is located directly vis-à-vis the working class and disadvantaged schools in Ciudad Juarez and less than two kilometres from the low-income, the Latin Sunland Park, New Mexico. Downhill Asarco is also of the University of Texas at El Paso and middle-class neighborhoods.

The dispute centres around the joint, so strongly, the battle of employment vis-à-vis the environment. More than 100 supporters of the reopening of the factory, it turned out to the 13 February session Wear blue “Let’s Get to Work” T-shirts. Many were former Asarco workers.

Opponents of the lodge also activists from the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, the Sierra Club, Sunland Park Grassroots Environmental Group and Ciudad Juarez’s Citizens Organized for Integral Development Community. After the TCEQ the decision was known, the demonstrators gathered outside the offices of the agency Austin.

“I knew that the rule against us,” said Bill Addington, a member of the Rio Grande chapter of the Sierra Club. A long period of opposition to the reopening, he predicted a long-term fight. “He gave us eight years to stop the Sierra Blanca,” he said, referring to a proposal for a nuclear dump.

However, public pressure has had some impact. The Agency liquidation Asarco issuing a permit for five years, instead of the usual 10-year span, and ordered the installation of four monitors air pollution in the vicinity of the facility.

A Century of jobs and pollution

For some, two fireplaces, hundreds of feet in the air, such as monuments of importance in the houses of local history. During its more than a century of operation of the station upwards, employs 25000 employees and the union of jobs available in a region is defined by low wages and the right to the legislation.

For others, the omnipresence of chimneys symbolize an aesthetic, environmental and economic burglary. Texas lawyer Steve Fisher, a former activist neighbourhood, El Paso, playing tennis, remembers the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), where children were “spitting sulphur.” El Pasoan Rick Provencio, lived near the shack during their period of bloom, remembers “a taste of coloured light” wehend sky diesig about Asarco. neighbours In Ciudad Juarez, Martina Contreras, the housing for the many problems of the nose and throat suffered during installation has been operating

New Web site asks: Good cop or bad cop?

LAS CRUCES - Have you had a positive or negative experience with a police officer in Las Cruces and feel the world should hear?

The Internet is to surf the Web with a land quite publicly praise and lodge complaints about the police. In particular, Culver City, California-based RateMyCop.com the momentum on Feb. 28, gives users the opportunity to share their experiences and to offer one to five stars, for officers rating is based on three criteria: the public authority, And fairness to the general satisfaction.

The site has used the law to public records to compile the names of more than 140000 policemen in the country, although it seems that the entire Las Cruces Police Department’s detective and officer of the duty roster.

Currently, he is the only LCPD New Mexico branch of the police, whose officers are available on the website.

Only the names of officers who are not requiring anonymity, do their work were invited, depending on location.

Users can comment on individual officers.

The site attracts the wrath of the criminal prosecution authorities who say that federal Web site compromise security officer as the headquarters of the Police Mission uproar, in which users can also lots of information.

A spokesman said the website RateMyCop works, accountability of the police.

“The intention was to strengthen the dialogue between the authorities and citizens, which, I hope, in a positive way,” Crystal Spelman, said a spokesman for the site. RateMyCop, not-for-profit site, but today it might be profits in the future after Spelman.

From traffic on the site has, on average, each day, more than 100000 hits since its introduction, said Spelman.

While some police departments across the country have leveled criticism of the site, said spokesman Dan Trujillo Las Cruces Police would not comment.

JR Stewart, the president of Las Cruces Police Officers Association, said he did not have much to see, you can see on the site and is not the opinion, there may be a compromise officer safety, since there is no personal information can be published.

He added that LCPD does “not tolerate bad cops”, and he was already a process for holding officers accountable.

“I think the only thing that would be good, something bad about an officer can be a good defender would love some right to know what is the nature officer,” said Stewart. “Regarding the security officers, but not really something.”

Spelman said RateMyCop is criticism.

“At first, all concerns, and rightly so, was the safety officer,” said Spelman. “… The information provided on the website is completely open to the public. Whenever an officer writing a ticket, the same information. There are no personal information, we do not have the list Undercover officers who or in sensitive positions. ”

Spelman said not all law enforcement agencies has been of crucial importance. Some officers have focused on the site for questions of users, she said.

“This is a good officer to criticism, as I said, good, bad or indifferent, but in a responsible way,” she said.

The Doña Ana County Sheriff’s Department is not currently on the site, but may in the future, “said Spelman.

Sheriff Todd Garrison, said he always welcomes feedback to his deputy, but had mixed feelings about the prospect of his department, on the website.

“I am certainly one to listen to what people have to say, but without proper training or knowledge, it is difficult for people to understand what we do,” said Garrison. He added that the safety of its Deputies would also be a concern.

Starting from Monday, only three members of the Las Cruces Police had Ratings. Two of them, Staff Sgt. Kerry Clements and Rene Det Molenda, had received positive feedback and glowing reviews.

The third is responsible for evaluating Chief Harry Romero, with the user to comment that the city is one of the best Cop “fundamentally honest man”, but was wrong when he was convinced of its direct jurisdiction of municipal officers and management In their business Magistrates Court

The police had differences with the two municipal court judges.

Spelman said there were rumors about possible legal action against the website. She said, it is unlikely, every challenge to succeed.

Environmental design contest fuels clean energy

With NMSU staff LAS CRUCES - New Mexico State University’s Institute for Energy and the Environment (EIA) and the College of Engineering is in the development of sustainable solutions to the challenges posed by the environment of its 18 International competition
Article Launched: 03/31/2008 12:00:00 AM MDT

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The Universidad de las AmŽricas team Puebla, … (Photo courtesy of Free Love Tom IEE / WERC)

The events very bitter disputes Features 33 teams from 23 universities, some 190 participants from the United States, Bogazici University in Turkey, in the universities of Manitoba and Waterloo, Canada, and a team Universidad de las Americas in Puebla, Mexico. It is also a showcase finals of the National Science Foundation project, in partnership with three universities and two in Mexico, New Mexico.

This year’s design tasks on the basis of the environmental challenges facing our world, which focus on renewable energy technologies to fight for innovation, sustainable construction, and water.

Thirteen teams fighting Task 3: Inland operating desalination and disposal in rural areas, Isolated communities, invites students to develop and demonstrate an economic approach and improve energy efficiency, the system simple and reliable recovery of the brackish water. This task is done by the American Water Works Association Research Foundation (AWWRF), and it is also very important, because EIA has recently received an award from Office of Naval Research for the work with General Electric Water and Process Technologies similar, Research brackish groundwater desalination National Research Facility of the Tularosa Basin in
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Alamogordo.

This work is particularly important, in the southwest of the groundwater contamination is often associated with high concentrations of salt. The research is likely to make a significant improvement of knowledge, the current process of desalination, reduce costs, and can lead to that the economic viability of the technology options for soldiers on the ground, water treatment.

“The recent distinction water marked a new high point of our group know-how, conduct and maturation of successful partnerships in history. We are very pleased that our flagship event of an example of the innovative cooperation between the public sector and the private sector, science and industry, “said Abbas Ghassemi, Executive Director of EEI.

Two other missions very popular with engineering teams are: Task 1: Innovative Technologies for an existing building, in order to increase the efficiency, performance and sustainable development of the site and tasks 5, the separation of water the emulsified oil to reduce, reuse and recycling by-products of manufacturing and improving the educational process in accordance with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold promote Task-5.

Environmental Engineering students should poster and an oral presentation and a written report to the bank a demonstration on the scale of a subgroup of 45 judges. Teams have the chance to win prize money, the academic and professional recognition, as well as Intel’s Environmental Innovation Award and the new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Travel Award. A student at the prestigious Terry McManus Memorial Award.

Sponsors of the event are AWWRF, Intel Corporation, the National Science Foundation, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, U.S. Department of Energy, the US Food and Drug Administration and the EPO.

The public is welcome and encouraged to participate in the competition Tuesday, April 8, the Pan American Center and admission is free. New Mexico Attorney General Gary K. King will make a presentation on legal issues and the environment in the ballroom of the Corbett Center in the third floor of 6.30 pm Sunday, April 6.

The NMSU College of Engineering has three centres of excellence “to make the Institute for Energy and the Environment. EIA partners WERC, a consortium for environmental education and technology for development, Southwest Technology Development Institute, renewable energy, research and development, Karlovy Vary and environmental monitoring and centres Research, a nuclear waste management and monitoring of the Centre. For further information, please contact Abbas Ghassemi, director of the IEE (800) 523-5996 or (575)


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