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LAS CRUCES – Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham approved $28.2 million in capital outlay projects for Doña Ana County as part of a $511 million capital bill this month; and for the first time, the public can see how and where state legislators and the governor directed the public infrastructure dollars under their discretion.
That s because lawmakers passed a law during this winter s 60-day legislative session requiring the previously secret funding requests to be published by the Legislative Council Service along with the funded projects, including projects that were vetoed.
Lujan Grisham vetoed a small percentage of projects, including three in Doña Ana County, explaining in a statement that she eliminated projects that were too small (under $10,000), projects where the proposed recipients have not used capital funds from the current fiscal year, were not properly planned or otherwise not ready to proceed.
Published: Friday, April 30, 2021
Michael Connor. Photo credit: U.S. Department of Interior/Flickr
President Biden has selected Michael Connor as his nominee for Department of Defense s assistant secretary of the Army for civil works. Connor, pictured at the far right at a 2015 service event, previously served as the Interior Department s deputy secretary. U.S. Department of Interior/Flickr
President Biden s pick this week to oversee the Army s vast natural resources operation would bring to the job decades of water experience at the Interior Department and on Capitol Hill.
The president tapped Michael Connor to be the Department of Defense s assistant secretary of the Army for civil works, which oversees the Army Corps of Engineers and its huge network of dams and other projects.
LAS CRUCES - New Mexico Workforce Connection in collaboration with New Mexico State University’s Office of Experiential Learning will host the Restart New Mexico Career Fair Tuesday, May 4. This virtual career event will take place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. via Handshake. New Mexico employers looking to recruit talented candidates can register in Handshake as well as set up schedules to meet with candidates individually or group sessions.
New Mexico Workforce Connection will offer a number of virtual workshops during the fair at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. The workshops will include Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act Adult Program, WIOA Youth Program, WIOA Employment Services, LiftFund, Workers Compensation Association and Division of Vocational Rehabilitation. Advance registration is required for the workshops.
LAS CRUCES - A new study from New Mexico State University researchers reveals the prevalence of vaccine hesitancy among health care workers across the world.
The study is the first comprehensive and worldwide assessment of published evidence on COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among health care workers. It comes as countries across the globe race to vaccinate their populations to slow transmission of the virus that causes COVID-19 and blunt the ongoing pandemic, now in its second year.
NMSU researchers, led by Jagdish Khubchandani, analyzed 35 studies that assessed vaccine hesitancy in health care workers from more than a dozen different countries. Their findings, published in the Journal of Community Health, show an average hesitancy rate of 22.5 percent among the 76,471 healthcare workers who participated in the studies.
Lemonade Living Raising Funds To Buy Historic Cabin
Lujan cabin owner Shelly Cross approached Lemonade Living about buying the cabin. Courtesy photo
By KIRSTEN LASKEY
kirsten@ladailypost.com
Lemonade Living has big dreams and with its plan to purchase the Lujan Homestead Cabin this week, many of those dreams are about to come true.
“When Lemonade Living first started, the goal was to build a farm and have an activities program with a long-term goal of a residential campus,” Lemonade Living Founder Melissa Arias said.
The creation of a jobs training program kicked off when Rose Chocolatier, 149 Central Park Square, was donated to Lemonade Living in 2019.