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ANALYSIS/OPINION:
The movement to preserve the Gila River is more than merely conservation. It is the protection of the rich history of our great nation. I was lucky to grow up in New Mexico and experience the beauty of the unique natural lands and rivers throughout the state.
My late father, Roshan Bhappu, was a prominent, well-respected engineer in the state, where he spent more than a decade as a senior metallurgist at the New Mexico Bureau of Mines, and as a research professor and later the vice president for research at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. He understood the importance of the natural resources within the New Mexican soil and bedrock, and he passed his love of the land to each of his children.
Gov appoints Correa Hemphill early Written by Geoffrey Plant on December 30, 2020
Just days before she was set to officially take office Jan. 1, District 28 state Sen.-elect Siah Correa Hemphill was appointed Tuesday by Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham to fill the short-term vacancy of the Senate seat that the first-time Democratic candidate won in the November general election. Correa Hemphill beat out Catron County Republican James “Jimbo” Williams in November. About a month later, incumbent Democratic District 28 state Sen. Gabriel Ramos, whom Correa Hemphill bested in the June primary, resigned to take a job with the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, leaving the seat temporarily vacant. “Your term commences immediately,” Lujan Grisham wrote to Correa Hemphill in the appointment letter, dated Dec. 29. Although commissioners in both Grant County and Socorro County met and separately
Senator Ramos resigns Written by Makayla Grijalva on December 8, 2020
District 28 state Sen. Gabriel Ramos has resigned from his legislative position, effective last Sunday, after accepting a job with the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. The resignation comes less than a month before Ramos was set to pass the torch to his successor, Siah Correa Hemphill, who was elected in November and will take office Jan. 1.
According to New Mexico law, state government cannot compensate legislators for work that they do for a state entity, with the exception of the per diem payments they receive as legislators.
“There are three weeks left, and I just figured that they needed me to go ahead and start, so we went ahead and gave the resignation,” Ramos said Monday. “There were three weeks left, so that did weigh in part of my decision. I had to get it done.”
December 22, 2020
By GEOFFREY PLANT
Daily Press Staff
With Catron County declining to nominate a candidate, New Mexico’s District 28 Senate seat will remain vacant until Democratic Sen.-elect Siah Correa Hemphill is sworn in next month. Correa Hemphill won the Senate seat against Catron County Republican James ※Jimbo” Williams in the Nov. 3 general election. Democrat Gabriel Ramos, whom Correa Hemphill beat in the June primary, resigned his position as District 28 senator effective Dec. 6, in order to take a job with the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology. Catron County’s decision not to nominate a candidate for the position leaves Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham unable to appoint anyone to the seat, said Lt. Gov. Howie Morales, who was himself appointed to the District 28 Senate seat by Gov. Bill Richardson in 2008, following the sudden death of longtime Sen. Ben Altamirano. Morales was serving as Grant County clerk at the time of his appointment, went on to wi