{"id":31931,"date":"2011-09-16T07:15:30","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T13:15:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/?p=31931"},"modified":"2011-10-08T21:44:25","modified_gmt":"2011-10-09T03:44:25","slug":"miyagishima-to-be-honored-at-white-house","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/09\/miyagishima-to-be-honored-at-white-house\/","title":{"rendered":"Miyagishima to be honored at White House"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_31232\"  class=\"wp-caption module image alignright\" style=\"max-width: 270px;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-31232 \" title=\"Miyagishima, Ken\" src=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/Miyagishima-Ken.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"270\" height=\"227\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima (Photo by Heath Haussamen)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In the middle of an election battle, Las Cruces Mayor <a href=\"http:\/\/las-cruces.org\/Government\/Legislative\/Mayor.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Ken Miyagishima<\/a> will be honored at the White House today as a \u201cchampion of change.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The mayor will be recognized for \u201chis work strengthening the local economy and creating jobs\u201d along the Southwest border, a news release from the city states.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s part of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/champions\" target=\"_blank\">White House Champions of Change<\/a> initiative, which profiles Americans who are working to help their communities innovate, educate and build a better America, the news release states.<\/p>\n<p>From the news release:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cMayor Miyagishima is being recognized for his work with his counterparts from the US-Mexico Border Mayors\u2019 Alliance to promote cross-border trade and economic development in the Southwest. He has also supported the efforts of the Las Cruces Hispano Chamber of Commerce and other business leaders to foster a vibrant local economy and the creation of jobs in the area.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Miyagishima will meet with White House officials to discuss his work and identify ways the federal government might be able to help.<\/p>\n<p>Miyagishima is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/08\/miyagishima-formally-announces-re-election-bid\/\" target=\"_blank\">up for re-election<\/a> on Nov. 8. Though filing day hasn\u2019t yet arrived, three others have announced that they\u2019re running for mayor \u2013 District 2 Councilor <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/01\/connor-enters-las-cruces-mayoral-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dolores Connor<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2011\/06\/huerta-enters-las-cruces-mayoral-race\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michael Ray Huerta<\/a> and Michael Fleming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the middle of an election battle, Las Cruces Mayor Ken Miyagishima will be honored at the White House today as a \u201cchampion of change.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[118,145,214,116],"class_list":["post-31931","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-economy","tag-las-cruces","tag-las-cruces-election","tag-washington"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31931","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31931"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31931\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31931"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31931"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31931"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}