WASHINGTON–The Intercity Passenger Rail Trust Fund Act was recently introduced in both the US Senate and House to permanently fund Amtrak. Intercity passenger rail is currently the only major type of transportation without a dedicated funding stream, and currently relies on the often unpredictable and limited annual appropriations process for funding,…
Posts published in “Day: July 24, 2020”
In a little under a year, our nation will conduct the once-a-decade census, which is a population count of everyone in the United States. As you can imagine, this is a huge task, and that is why the U.S. Census Bureau is hiring employees across the country. Hundreds of thousands…
On July 16, 2020, District Court Judge Jeffrey Shannon denied a request by convicted murderer Micola Sopyn to be transferred from Central New Mexico Correctional Facility to house arrest. The state, represented by Eighth Judicial District Senior Trial Attorney Carmela Starace, argued for denial of the inmate’s transfer out of…
On July 21, 2020, the Eighth Judicial District Attorney’s Office completed its first jury trial in the district since the COVID-19 pandemic. It occurred in Colfax County in State v. Jason Van Sweden, D-809-CR-2018-00195. Precautions were taken to keep jurors and all parties safe during the trial. The court dedicated the…
Raton MainStreet’s Gate City Music Festival Committee is announcing that due to the circumstances relating to the COVID-19 Pandemic the difficult decision has been made to cancel the 6th Annual Gate City Music Festival scheduled for September 5 & 6, 2020. This is not a decision that was made in…
TAOS, NM – July 23, 2020 – Recently the Santa Fe National Forest had a camper and a bear interaction that left a Los Alamos woman in the hospital with a collapsed lung, several broken bones and multiple bites. The Carson National Forest (NF) has had bears entering developed recreation sites along…