Dear editor, Cibola County District Attorney Barbara Romo, by choosing to dismiss two felony charges against Jeanine Jaramillo, set the stage for the deaths of two wellloved public servants in Santa Fe County. Let’s say their names - Santa Fe Police Officer Robert Duran and retired Las Vegas firefighter Frank Lovato.

Dear editor, I sure hope that Erik O. Garcia will be a good mayor.

For college basketball fans, this might be the best part of the sporting year as both men’s and women’s teams are right in the thick of `March Madness’ with their respective NCAA tournaments underway around the country.

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Just weeks before Russian troops entered Ukraine in late February, a wave of malicious cyber activities targeted Ukraine’s government and critical infrastructure in the country.

It’s easy to be angry about high gas prices, it’s a lot harder to reclaim freedom. Say what you will about the shutdown of 2020 and masks, but at least – as Americans – we haven’t had to worry about bombs being dropped on our houses. We haven’t had to worry about our neighborhoods being levelled by Russian bombs and not sure if our family, our friends, our neighbors are still alive. It’s easy to be angry about high gas prices, but our grandparents and great-grandparents could suffer through the prices and brutality of Hitler to secure freedom for our ungrateful selves. We can do the same for our children and grandchildren.

Dear Nancy: Since the pandemic, I have felt overwhelmed because many aspects of my life have snowballed out of my control. I worked long hours and bent over backward to follow the rules of preventing COVID-19, but ultimately I had to swallow my pride and let go of my business.

While on a drive up to Mount Taylor, I decided to pull off Lobo Canyon Road. I stopped where the road meets the gravel so I could check out the notification board, you know, be on the lookout for cougars and take care of the forest. All the good stuff.

Acoma Learning Center received a $48184 grant through the Association of Tribal Archives, Libraries, and Museums (ATALM) American Rescue Plan: Humanities Grants for Native Institutions. This grant opportunity is intended to help Native Cultural Institutions to recover from the COVID-19 pandemic and provide humanities programming to their communities. Funds were provided by the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) as part of the American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 passed by the U.S. Congress.

GALLUP, N.M. - With today’s veto by Governor Lujan Grisham of Senate Bill 48, known as the “Junior” bill, Senator George K. Muñoz, Chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, called on his legislative colleagues in both chambers to consider an extraordinary session to override that veto. Senate Bill 48 was this year’s add-on to the state budget and allowed for each legislator in both chambers to allocate $25.2 million in recurring and $25.2 million in nonrecurring funds for projects and programs around the state. Senate Bill 48 included funding for home delivered meals to seniors, expansion of domestic violence programs, increased support for the judicial system to help reduce crime, and additional funds for law enforcement agencies to purchase more police cars.

SANTA FE – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham joined five other Democratic governors on Tuesday in asking congressional leadership to support federal legislation to provide relief for Americans f acing rising gas prices by suspending the federal gas tax until the end of the year.