New Mexico State University has several educational outreach programs dedicated to serving students pursuing degrees in health sciences. Three years ago, the university introduced the Osteopathic Medicine Pathway Program. 

Its purpose is to train the next generation of osteopathic physicians with the goal that they will attend the Burrell College of Osteopathic Medicine, then stay and practice in New Mexico and the surrounding communities. On May 11, the first student from OMPP, Muhammad Sufyan, received his bachelor’s degree in biochemistry. 

SANTA FE – Today, New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver released a draft amendment to the state’s Campaign Finance Rule and announced a public hearing in the state’s capital to gather community input about the draft amendment. Here is a statement from her office:

The amendment was mandated by the passage of Senate Bill 3 during the 2019 New Mexico Legislative Session, which directed the Secretary of State to promulgate rules in order to implement the changes to the Campaign Reporting Act (“the Act”) contained in Senate Bill 3. 

“The proposed amendment to the existing Campaign Finance Rule will give the public a better understanding of who is trying to influence our elections by providing more transparency and accountability in campaign finance reporting,” said Secretary Toulouse Oliver. “In order to make this amended rule work in the best possible way it can, I encourage every New Mexican to participate in this rulemaking process and to provide their comments and feedback.”

Las Cruces Community Theatre announces the opening of it’s 57th season with  “Biloxi Blues”, the second in Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Neil Simon's trilogy which began with Brighton Beach Memoirs and concluded with Broadway Bound.

“When we last met Eugene Jerome, he was coping with adolescence in 1930's Brooklyn. Here, he is a young army recruit during WW II, going through basic training and learning about Life and Love with a capital 'L' along with some harsher lessons, while stationed at boot camp in Biloxi, Mississippi in 1943.”

  ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A compensation program for those exposed to radiation from years of nuclear weapons testing and uranium mining would be expanded under legislation that seeks to address fallout across the western United States, Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands.

U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan rolled out the measure Tuesday on the 74th anniversary of the Trinity Test.

  SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — A candidate seeking the Democratic nomination to an open Senate seat wants to disband U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and turn its responsibilities over to the FBI and others.

New Mexico Secretary of State Maggie Toulouse Oliver said Tuesday in a statement that she wants to "abolish ICE" and accused the agency of undermining community safety and stability.

She is competing with U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján in the 2020 election to succeed retiring Democratic Sen. Tom Udall.

  Luna County, in far southwestern New Mexico, is one of the poorest counties in one of the poorest states in the nation.

There, the median household income is 30% less than the comparable statewide number. And the number of Luna County residents with heart disease is much higher than the state average: 294 people per 100,000 die of heart disease, compared to New Mexico’s average of 185 per 100,000. 

The picture is much different in  Santa Fe County, where the median household income is 21 % above the state average, and 158 people per 100,000 die of heart disease.

If you're like most people, you put your blue bin out in front of your house every two weeks, packed to the brim with flattened Amazon boxes, aluminum cans, office paper, water and soda bottles, and perhaps a rinsed milk jug or two. Beyond knowing that it all leaves in a truck, and your empty blue bin is ready for another 2 weeks, do you know how exactly your Las Cruces recycling is processed?

The task at hand: locate the underground yellow polypipe gas line, find where it joins to the older, steel piping under La Fonda Drive, update Geographic Information System (GIS) maps, and check for corrosion. The pipe could be 2- to 4-feet underground. A few years ago, this would require digging up a big chunk of the street, but today the Las Cruces Utilities (LCU) crew just pops off a relatively small pavement “keyhole”.

Misa Tran, the recently crowned Miss New Mexico 2019, is an undergraduate athletic training major at New Mexico State University’s Department of Kinesiology and Dance, with plans to use her platform as a way to help veterans and first responders and the Children’s Miracle Network.

Tran, who was born in Albuquerque and raised in Alamogordo, is also applying to NMSU’s athletic training program with hopes of one day working at the high school or collegiate level. She was inspired to attend NMSU by her high school’s athletic trainer, David Maldonado.