Month: July 2024
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How to Read Negative Facebook Comments: The Fox and the Grapes–An Editorial
There are many who pretend to despise and belittle that which is beyond their reach.
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SATURDAY DAILY DIGEST (7/6/24)
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NMSU Global Campus opens enrollment for free grant writing course
New Mexico State University’s Global Campus has opened enrollment for its free Introduction to Grant Writing Microlearning course.
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CFPB Examiners Find Loan Servicing Failures, Illegal Debt Collection Practices, and Issues with Medical Payment Products
Supervisory Highlights report also reviews practices related to deposit and prepaid account freezes and information access.
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Southern New Mexico Communities Can Apply for Texas Broadband Buildout Initiative
Connect New Mexico, the State Office of Broadband Access and Expansion announced the availability of funding for increased access to expertise necessary to support high speed internet in our broader community.
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2024 Electric Light Parade Winners Announced
The theme for this year’s parade was” Rockin’ In The USA!”.
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Urban Spirits Issues Voluntary Recall of Urban Spirits Non-Alcoholic Drink Mixes Due to Potential Under-Processing
Urban River Spirits is issuing a voluntary recall of the products listed below due to additional shelf stability testing requirements from the Oregon Department of Agriculture.
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FRIDAY DAILY DIGEST (7/5/24)
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July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month
July is National Minority Mental Health Awareness Month, a time to bring attention to the unique challenges that racial and ethnic minority groups in the U.S. face when it comes to mental illness.
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Intuit, makers of popular payroll software, deprived more than 2,500 employees of more than $555,000 in overtime pay
US Department of Labor recovers $555K for more than 2,500 Intuit employees after software provider’s recordkeeping errors denied overtime wages.
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Branigan Library wants you to make Paper Flowers – Lilacs–REGISTRATION REQUIRED
Las Cruces Public Libraries invite you to join us in making paper lilacs this month.
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Students with chops: NMSU reboots meat judging team
Training for collegiate competitions has been a primary focus for NMSU’s meat judging team since its early days in the 1900s. After a nearly 40-year hiatus, the team orchestrated a comeback in fall 2023.
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Catalpa Drive Road Closure in Las Cruces
he City of Las Cruces, through a contract with A-Mountain Construction, will be doing pavement replacement between Monday, July 8, and Friday, July 12, 2024 on Catalpa Drive, between Poplar Avenue to the Cul-de-Sac. The road will be closed to thru traffic. Source: City of Las Cruces For the public’s convenience, crews will work only…
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Lane Closures Extended for Sundown Road
Roadwork near the intersection of Telshor Boulevard and Sundown Road will be extended through Tuesday, July 9, 2024.
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The Best Public High School In New Mexico is in Las Cruces–Editorial
Aside from being ranked first among 204 New Mexico Public High Schools, Arrowhead Park Early College High School (APECHS) ranked #616 from a national field of more than twenty thousand public high schools.
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Happy Fourth of July! (THURSDAY DAILY DIGEST: 7/4/24)
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On the Distributional Consequences of Responding Aggressively to Inflation
This post discusses the distributional consequences of an aggressive policy response to inflation using a Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian (HANK) model.
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Propuesta de norma sobre el calor [Heat Rule Proposed]
El Departamento de Trabajo de EE. UU. ha publicado una norma propuesta con el objetivo de proteger a millones de trabajadores de los importantes riesgos para la salud derivados del calor extremo. [The U.S. Department of Labor has released a proposed rule with the goal of protecting millions of workers from the significant health risks of extreme heat.]
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National Health Care Fraud Enforcement Action Results in 193 Defendants Charged and Over $2.75 Billion in False Claims
Massive enforcement actions hit Arizona and Texas–miss New Mexico.
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Create Pressed Flower Tea Lights at Munson Library–CALL TO CONFIRM
Join us at Munson Library to create beautiful glass tea lights from pressed flowers from 1 – 3 p.m. on Thursday, July 11, 2024.
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National Institute of Justice Term of the Month — Short Tandem Repeats
Welcome to NIJ’s Term of the Month. Each month we are featuring a term from our scientific research portfolios informing significant American justice system issues and solutions.
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‘It Came from Beyond the Border’ at Branigan Cultural Center
It Came from Beyond the Border, an exhibit featuring work by El Paso artist Angel Cabrales that challenges current U.S. immigration policies, will open July 10 at the Branigan Cultural Center, 501 N. Main St., in Downtown Las Cruces.
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USDA Announces Approval of D-SNAP for New Mexico Disaster Areas
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced that low-income New Mexico residents recovering from the impact of wildfires and flooding beginning June 17, 2024, could be eligible for a helping hand from the USDA’s Disaster Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (D-SNAP).
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WEDNESDAY DAILY DIGEST (7/3/24)
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Composite Blotter for the Week of June 19-June 25, 2024
The week ending June 25, 2024, saw 26 responses to snakes throughout our broader community and one for a bee swarm in Sunland Park. The weekly number of responses to Auto Theft dropped from 40 to 32 from the previous week, but Trespassing and Theft remained prevalent. There were only 5 responses to Gunshot Wounds…
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First Saturday Movie Marathon – July is for Jules (Verne)
Las Cruces Public Libraries invite you to join us for an adventure movie marathon in honor of our Summer Reading Program, Adventure Begins at Your Library.
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NMSU Library’s ‘NEH’ team earns award for Amador Family digitization project
The Library’s National Endowment for the Humanities project team was selected as the 2024 winner of CIMA’s Archival Project award for their work on the Amador Family Correspondence Digitization Project.
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Downtown Las Cruces Partnership Launches 5th Community Survey–All Community Members Encouraged to Share Thoughts
The City of Las Cruces is providing this information in cooperation with the Downtown Las Cruces Partnership. Source: City of Las Cruces The Downtown Las Cruces Partnership has launched its 5th Annual Community Survey, an essential tool for gathering feedback from residents, business owners and visitors to help shape the future of downtown Las Cruces.…
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Community Conversation About Substance Abuse in Hatch
Have you or someone you know been affected by substance use?
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NM State Baseball Announces Brand New Newsletter
Fans will be able to sign up for that newsletter to receive information on the happenings around the program.
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FUN FACTS: The Fourth of July: 2024
On July 4, 1776, the Continental Congress approved the Declaration of Independence, setting the 13 colonies on the road to freedom as a sovereign nation.
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July Economic Development News–New Mexico SSBCI Technical Assistance Program
The State Small Business Credit Initiative (SSBCI) Technical Assistance Program will offer workshops and direct assistance to qualifying Very Small Businesses (VSB) and Socially Economically Disadvantaged Individuals (SEDI) owned businesses through financial, legal, venture capital, and emerging fund manager advisory assistance. The department has also issued an RFP for accounting advisory services under this program,…
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S’more Adventures at Branigan–REGISTRATION REQUIRED
This fun crafting time will be from 1:30 – 3:30 Wednesday, July 3, 2024.
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Las Cruces Woman Located
Ramona Marie Gonzales, the 46-year-old Las Cruces woman reported missing on Saturday, June 29, has been located and is safe.
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TUESDAY DAILY DIGEST (7/2/24)
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CFPB and FHFA Release Updated Data from the National Survey of Mortgage Originations for Public Use
New data provides details on appraisals, willingness to move, and disability accommodations.