Bernalillo County voters have said yes to the advisory question asking whether small amounts of marijuana should be decriminalized. The advisory question, which asked whether penalties for the possession of an ounce or less of marijuana should be reduced to a $25 fine, passed with 60 percent of the vote.
Editor’s note: All numbers were as of press time and may have changed. Republican incumbent Dianna Duran won the New Mexico Secretary of State’s office by four points over Democrat Maggie Toulouse Oliver. She is the first member of her party to serve in this position in the past 80 years.
Voters overwhelmingly approved a non-binding advisory measure that supported increased funding for mental health services in Albuquerque and Bernalillo County Tuesday night.
As Gov. Susana Martinez put it, fulfilling promises propelled the Republican incumbent in a successful re-election bid for the state’s top office. In front of adoring fans at the Marriott Hotel at Uptown, Martinez spoke a mix of Spanish and English to the GOP election party for roughly 13 minutes after Democratic challenger Gary King’s concession.
There is a noticeable correlation between a candidate’s chances of winning and the amount of money spent on his or her campaign this election cycle.
Democrat Hector Balderas will ring in the New Year as the state’s next attorney general. Balderas beat out his Republican opponent Susan Riedel.
In the race for New Mexico’s First Congressional District, Michelle Lujan Grisham beat Republican challenger Michael Frese by a comfortable margin. The Democratic incumbent beat Frese 59 to 41 percent as of press time. For her second term, Lujan Grisham said she plans to focus on the state’s economy with an emphasis on encouraging small businesses and farmers, supporting education and rebuilding New Mexicans’ faith in the U.S. Congress.
Today is Election Day, and for those planning to vote, The Daily Lobo has compiled the latest updates on the major races.
There have been 28 auto thefts and 97 auto burglaries on campus since January, and some students are beginning to wonder if UNM and the UNM Police Department are doing enough to protect their belongings.
U.S. Sen. Martin Heinrich visited UNM Monday afternoon to meet with representatives of the Brain and Behavioral Health Institute and discuss mental health initiatives.
The office of the UNM President Bob Frank has announced the 2014 winners of the Sarah Belle Brown Community Service Awards. This year’s awardees include student winner Priscila Poliana, a graduate student in urban and regional planning; faculty award winner Dr. Arti Prasad, division chief for the Department of Internal Medicine and executive medical director of Center for Life; and staff award winner Ashley Taylor, senior academic advisor at Anderson School of Management.
The Albuquerque Police Department and the U.S. Department of Justice announced Friday they had reached a settlement agreement that will require the APD to implement sweeping changes in their policies regarding use of force and the handling of suspects with mental health concerns. The agreement states it is “designed to ensure police integrity, protect officer safety, and prevent use of excessive force, including unreasonable use of deadly force, by APD.”
UNM Police Department received a report on Saturday of multiple campus service vehicles with flat tires. In a statement, UNMPD said that 57 service vehicles across campus were vandalized in what may be a Halloween prank.
The Howl is a weekly online newscast produced by the Daily Lobo. On this week's show: President Frank bestows awards; A new development is planned for South Campus; Election Day is on Tuesday; Jasper's killer is still on the loose; UNM Green Fund starts accepting applications; Micaela Eldridge-Lane tells UNM's ghost stories; Brianna Gallegos looks into campus security; UNM cross country sweeps the Mountain West; UNM football heads to Las Vegas; UNM basketball returns
Jason Westman has been homeless in Albuquerque for nearly 20 years. He has been diagnosed with PTSD and has a history of alcohol abuse, and though he’s tried to get treatment, he never stays on it for long. During the warm months he sleeps on the streets, begging for change and occasionally staying at a shelter. But every winter, Westman said he usually commits a low-level crime like breaking a window so he can go to county jail, get out of the cold and get three meals a day for a few months.
After the successful completion of the human genome project in 2003, scientists turned their attention to the wiring of the human brain, considered the next unmapped frontier. At UNM’s MIND research network, the lab of Dr. Vince Calhoun is making headway on a project investigating the “chronnectome” of the brain — an in-depth look at how regions of the brain change in connection with one another, and how that may relate to different diseases, particularly mental illness. The brain can be divided into many different regions, each having their own unique functions.
UNM’s Graduate and Professional Student Association utilized something all college students would gladly spend money on in order to fund a new scholarship – food. On Thursday four food trucks from local businesses settled in Cornell Mall for GPSA’s Food for Thought fundraiser. The event was sponsored by GPSA and UNM Food.
Halloween Blood DriveASUNM Community Experience is hosting a Halloween Blood Drive in partnership with United Blood Services.
Local businesses and private citizens are pitching in with the city to try to find the person or people who killed a rare animal at the city zoo.In addition to a large cash reward, local restaurant Pizza 9 has announced that they are offering free pizza for up to a year to the person who can lead police to those responsible for killing “Jasper,” one of ABQ BioPark’s Tasmanian devils.
In 2003, the wait to see Dr. Sanjeev Arora for Hepatitis C treatment was eight months long. At the time, the clinic at UNM Hospital where Arora worked was one of only two in New Mexico that offered treatment for the disease. Arora said he realized that untreated Hepatitis C was not only causing patients to develop liver cancers and cirrhosis — it was killing them.
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