New Mexico has a problem of its own making: the Educational Retirement Board (ERB) is preventing retired educators from working as independent contractors, even when their services are limited, specialized, and urgently needed.
If you seek to isolate CYFD away from “political influence” because you don’t trust the cabinet secretary charged with leading the department, you are blaming the wrong person.
A Zia Pueblo farmer I know is debating how much corn to plant this year. “There’s no snow in the mountains,” he says. Irrigation will be tight, and he’s reluctant to draw from a pond he might need for emergencies.
New Mexico Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham and Speaker Javier Martinez both acknowledged the importance of southeast New Mexico by summarily dismissing Speaker Burrows’ idea.
Drive through Ruidoso or into the Sacramento Mountains today, and you’ll see the problem: forests choked with dead timber, dense overgrowth, large burn scars, and millions of acres that have become nothing more than tinderboxes. This didn’t happen by accident.
Will Amy Barela do the right thing and admit that she is no longer Republican Party State Chair based on violation of the party’s Uniform State Rules (USR)?
