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Grants to Celebrate 92 Years of Aviation History
GRANTS, N.M. – City of Grants officials are requesting your presence. On Nov. 17, at 2 pm, they will be celebrating 92 Years of Aviation History at the Grants-Milan Municipal Airport with an Open House and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony for the City’s brand new $4 million runway...
FBI, Albuquerque PD still searching for ‘Red Bandana Bandit’
November 1, 2017 marks the first anniversary of the unsolved robbery of BBVA Compass Bank, located at 1201 San Pedro Drive NE, in Albuquerque.
The FBI and Albuquerque Police Department are still searching for this suspect, nicknamed the Red Bandana Bandit.
The FBI may pay a reward of up to $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the suspect.
Anyone with information about this robbery is asked to call the FBI at (505) 889-1300, or Albuquerque Metro Crime Stoppers, anonymously, at (505) 843-STOP.
Tips can also be submitted online at tips.fbi.gov.
Information about other bank robbers wanted by the FBI can be found at bankrobbers.fbi.gov.
Gallup Land Partners get tax break on mine land
With one dissenting vote against the proposed recreational development, the McKinley County Board of Commissioners approved a $2.75 million tax break for the Gallup Land Partners to proceed in creating a multi-purpose recreational park on land with numerous closed-down coal mines.
On Oct. 17, Commissioners Carol Bowman-Muskett, chair, and Bill Lee approved the resolution that grants the county to lower the annual tax rate per acre from $405 to $1. Commissioner Genevieve Jackson cast the dissenting vote.
The vast open land, 6,792 acres, sits just north of the Gallup outdoor market, up to the south end of China Springs, east of U.S...
Final candidate for CEO hopes to bring his teaching style to the UNM-G campus
Ayala currently serves as the Dean of Education at the California State University at Sonoma, a position he has held since 2011.
“As dean I focused on our accreditation process,” Ayala said. “There are 23 campuses at California State University, the largest in the country. We as a unit have become a political force.”
Sharing his motivation for teaching, Ayala explained during his early years he accepted a teaching position in Calexico, Calif., a town on U.S.-Mexican border, where the temperature easily exceeds 100 degrees...
Dr. James Malm sees student enrollment a national challenge as he vies for UNM-G CEO
He currently serves as a professor at the Colorado State University in Greenwood Village, Colo., where he teaches both undergraduate and graduate management courses.
“In many universities there are declines in enrollment and revenue,” Malm said before the search committee on Oct. 20. “We are facing it all over the country in big external forces with no control over them.”
From 2000 to 2015, the growth rate in colleges and universities nationwide was 32 percent, explained Malm, due to a global economic recession.
“So many people...
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