City produces videos to help you get to know Las Cruces candidates
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If you’re looking to get to know the candidates, these videos are a good start. Click on the headline to watch. Continue Reading
Las Cruces candidates to participate in forum Wednesday evening
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For those who can’t attend in person, the forum will be televised live on Comcast cable channel 20 and streamed online. Continue Reading
Many readers cry foul over city’s rejection of TEA Party forum
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Many NMPolitics.net readers say the City of Las Cruces should have let the local tea party hold a candidate forum at City Hall like it allowed two other organizations. Continue Reading
Watch Las Cruces mayoral candidate forum
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Video of three Las Cruces mayoral candidates participating in a forum earlier this month has been posted online. You can watch it here. Continue Reading
City lets other groups use council chambers, but not TEA Party
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The City of Las Cruces is letting two nonprofits hold candidate forums in the council chambers at City Hall before the Nov. 3 election. But when the Las Cruces TEA Party, which is also a nonprofit, made a similar request, the city said no. Continue Reading
Watch Las Cruces mayoral, council candidates debate
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Candidates for Las Cruces mayor and three City Council seats participated in a two-hour debate at New Mexico State University on Tuesday. Continue Reading
Las Cruces municipal candidates debate Tuesday
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Candidates for three Las Cruces City Council seats and mayor will participate in a debate at New Mexico State University on Tuesday. Continue Reading
Las Cruces City Council candidate wants off the ballot, but it’s too late
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Steve Calderazzo said he requested that his name be removed from the ballot because his candidacy would “almost guarantee” that Kasandra Gandara would win the District 1 seat on the city council. Continue Reading
NAACP to hold Las Cruces candidate forum Tuesday
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The local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People will moderate a forum for mayoral and city council candidates in Las Cruces on Tuesday. Continue Reading
Las Cruces mayoral candidates to participate in upcoming forum
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All three candidates for Las Cruces mayor have confirmed their participation in an Oct. 8 forum, according to a news release from the event’s organizers. Continue Reading
Self-financing characterizes Las Cruces election thus far
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All three candidates for mayor and several candidates running for three city council seats have partially or wholly funded their own campaigns. Continue Reading
Old cartels never really die
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The Juárez Cartel remains the biggest organization in the Paso del Norte region, followed by the Sinaloa Cartel of Chapo Guzman and Mayo Zambada. What’s more, “the (New Mexico) territory of Las Cruces and Albuquerque is disputed by the two cartels,” according to one story. Continue Reading
Candidates file to run in Las Cruces municipal election
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As expected, three candidates filed paperwork Tuesday to run for Las Cruces mayor in the Nov. 6 election. Several people also filed to run for three open city council seats and a judgeship. Continue Reading
Public financing’s effect on ABQ, Santa Fe elections isn’t clear
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Studies in other states show that public financing of elections has allowed a more diverse group of candidates and increased voter turnout, but the data doesn’t yet exist to know whether that’s happening in Albuquerque and Santa Fe, the two New Mexico cities with public-financing systems. Continue Reading
Las Cruces city manager explains need for tax increase
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While some feel misled by a tax increase that means the City of Las Cruces has collected millions of yet-to-be-allocated dollars, City Manager Robert Garza says the surplus has been part of the plan all along — and the money will be used to offset lost state revenue as promised. Continue Reading