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2021 Best of the Best Rodeo hangs in the balance

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City Council to decide next month

The coronavirus pandemic is what did in the annual Best of the Best Rodeo last summer, but the city is not ready to decide whether or not to put a halt to this year’s event.

Even though city staff recommended cancellation, the Gallup City Council decided to give organizers time to put...

Gallup animal shelter back on the drawing board

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Library gets additional funding

A year ago, just before the COVID-19 pandemic was declared, the City of Gallup was talking about how to build a new regional animal shelter. Now they’re talking again.

At the Feb. 25, 2020 City Council meeting, Jackie McKinney was the outgoing mayor. He said he had friends on both sides of the land issue and didn’t want to encumber the incoming mayor over site selection. So the council voted to table the issue.

Gallup got its new mayor, Louis Bonaguidi, at the same time COVID was entering the picture.

The sites under consideration for the shelter included an expansion of its current location (Balok Street off U. S. Highway 491) with the...

Water line replacement timeline moved up

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The Gallup City Council approved a budget adjustment to begin a water line replacement and road pavement project at its March 9 meeting.

Replacement of the water line — on East Wilson Drive, from McKinley Drive to Marguerite Franco Drive — was slated to take place within two years, with supervision from the city’s utilities department. But since the public works department wants to utilize time-sensitive funds for a mill and overlay on Marguerite Franco Drive, the utilities department proposed moving up the process to get the water line done.

On March 9, Dennis Romero, the department’s executive director, went before the city council and asked for a budget adjustment, which...

One-hundred-twenty-nine bills have cleared the House

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Over 3,000 New Mexicans participated in committees in Weeks Five and Six

SANTA FE — With less than two weeks remaining in the 2021 Legislative Session, the New Mexico House of Representatives continues to move quickly on legislation while involving thousands of New Mexicans throughout the process.

As of March 7, the New Mexico House of Representatives has worked efficiently on the 312 bills introduced into its chambers since the beginning of the session. About 289 bills have had a hearing in a House committee and out of that total, 129 have made it through the committee process, passed the House floor, and are now in the Senate for consideration. In weeks five and six, over 3,000 New...

New Mexico leaders discuss American Rescue Plan

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‘Game changers’ for the state

The U.S. House and Senate passed the American Rescue Act of 2021, a $1.9 trillion economic stimulus package, on March 10, and New Mexico leaders wasted no time discussing what the ramifications of the package mean for the state. This discussion was held in an online roundtable on March 10.

While most of the discussion has been spent on items like the $1,400 stimulus payment for qualifying Americans and extension of unemployment insurance, Sen. Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., wanted to highlight the other parts of the Act that he believes are game changers for New Mexico.

“This is going to supercharge the already robust efforts of our governor and...

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