LAS CRUCES – The city will look to create a process by which unowned cats are trapped, sterilized and released back into the community as a means of reducing the flourishing local population of stray and feral felines.
While the overall goal will be to reduce the cat population over the next several years, supporters of the move see it as a more humane process than euthanasia.
On Monday, Las Cruces city councilors agreed during a work session to fast-track a resolution to start such a program rather than wait for it to be implemented as part of a larger overhaul of the city s animal control ordinance.
Senate Finance Committee Votes To Work Additional Funds Into Budget So College Is More Affordable For New Mexicans
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The prospect of additional state funds brought welcome news for New Mexico’s college students Wednesday.
Based on an improved revenue outlook, New Mexico will have an additional $373 million to spend, bringing the state budget to $7.436 billion, financial experts said during a Senate Finance Committee hearing.
The extra money would include a one-time appropriation of over $20 million to make college more affordable for New Mexicans.
Some $11 million of the new money would go into the state’s Opportunity Scholarship Program, which gives residents the chance to attend college tuition-free.
Karen Trujillo leaves legacy of research and education in New Mexico
She helped form Educators Rising New Mexico
Adriana M. Chavez
LAS CRUCES, N.M. – Karen Trujillo was known as a brilliant researcher and passionate advocate for New Mexico students and educators.
A proud Aggie, she earned all three degrees – bachelor’s, graduate and Ph.D. – from New Mexico State University in secondary education, mathematics, and curriculum and instruction. She was also a huge Aggie sports fan, cheering proudly at men’s and women’s basketball games, among other sporting events.
But outside of her family, what was closest to her heart was education. Trujillo became superintendent of Las Cruces Public Schools in 2019, but maintained her deep connection to NMSU.
In the early 1990s, growing numbers of women were reported missing or found dead across the city of Ciudad Juarez, Mexico. Decades later advocates have documented more than 2,000 women were murdered yet none of their killers have been identified or convicted, according to the Center for Strategic and International Studies. Esther Chavez Cano in front of the women s shelter she founded. (Courtesy Photo)
One woman dedicated her life to telling the stories of those women, turning over her collection of documents to the Rio Grande Historical Collections at New Mexico State Universitys Library Archives and Special Collections Department.
Esther Chavez Cano gathered newspaper clippings, magazines and photographs documenting the murders of women and girls, referred to as Femicides in Juarez. Over the years, she had loaned out materials from her collection that were never returned. Cano thought the collection would be safer and more accessible in a library.
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