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• From the Executive’s Desk: New Mexico’s small businesses remain bullish for 2023

  15-06-2023 15:31
  
  (AP Photo/Paul Sakuma, File)Despite economic headwinds, New Mexico small business owners are confident in their abilities to manage their businesses through difficult times.According to a new Bank of America study, business owners are feeling pressure around inflation and supply chain issues, but the majority surveyed (76%) feel well-positioned for a strong year ahead. Despite expressing concerns about labor and a potential recession, more than half of business owners reported higher revenue in
  
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• Texas Heat Wave May Break Temperature Records

  15-06-2023 11:24 via nytimes.com
  
  Parts of the state, including the Dallas-Fort Worth area, are forecast to see a heat index of at least 105 degrees. The conditions are expected to last for days.
  
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• American Indian Artisans Still Make Silver Watch Accessories

  15-06-2023 11:08 via nytimes.com
  
  While the jewelry fad has waned, artisans continue to make designs in silver and turquoise.
  
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• Border Patrol: Smuggled migrants found in fake FedEx vans

  15-06-2023 05:25
  
  Shown is a fake FedEx delivery van that Border Patrol agents said was used to illegally smuggle migrants into El Paso, Texas, on Friday. (Courtesy U.S. Customs and Border Protection)Turns out this wasn't a job for FedEx.Officials announced Wednesday that U.S. Border Patrol agents and Texas Department of Public Safety troopers recently intercepted fake FedEx delivery vans in west El Paso that had illegally carried migrants across the border.Agents were on the lookout for the purple and orange lo
  
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• There just might be some howling

  15-06-2023 05:09
  
  Copyright © 2023 Albuquerque JournalSome things are worth the wait.Case in point: UNM golfer Bastien Amat flipped the switch to the tune of 10 strokes in the final round of U.S. Open qualifying with a 6-under-par 65, but finished one stroke out of a playoff. Then, finding out he'd be the first alternate out of the Tacoma qualifier, he went down to California unsure of whether or not he'd actually be playing at Los Angeles Country Club.As he recounted in an interview on Monday with The Openi
  
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• Past, present Lobo golfers are in U.S. Open field

  15-06-2023 05:09
  
  University of New Mexico golfer Bastien Amat, shown in action from last September, is in the U.S. Open field. (Mike Sandoval/For the Journal)Copyright © 2023 Albuquerque JournalSome things are worth the wait.Case in point: UNM golfer Bastien Amat flipped the switch to the tune of 10 strokes in the final round of U.S. Open qualifying with a 6-under-par 65, but finished one stroke out of a playoff. Then, finding out he'd be the first alternate out of the Tacoma qualifier, he went down to Cal
  
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• Local golf: This is what makes Puerto del Sol the place to be after sundown

  15-06-2023 05:08
  
  Editor's note: This continues the Journal's weekly package through the summer of local golf coverage. For tips or suggestions, email [email protected] © 2023 Albuquerque JournalIt's 8:29 on a cool Tuesday evening and Puerto del Sol is almost out of balls. A taco truck – taco trailer? – whirs outside the pro shop. It's almost out of food too, shuttering its windows maybe 30 minutes later.That'll happen. Mark McFall counted about 60 or so people all hitting balls at
  
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• Local golf notes: Prep stars are among NM qualifiers for Junior PGA Championship

  15-06-2023 04:53
  
  Belen’s Rylee Salome, foreground, is shown at the 2023 Class 4A state golf championships at Santa Ana Golf Club on Tuesday, May 9, 2023. She won the local Junior PGA qualifier earlier that concluded Tuesday. (Chancey Bush/ Albuquerque Journal)Grady Cox of Rio Communities and Vari Mariscal of Deming qualified for the upcoming boys Junior PGA Championship in Hot Springs, Arkansas, with their performances at the qualifier held Monday-Tuesday at UNM Championship Course.Rylee Salome of Los Lun
  
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• Sports Speak Up! On the wild Canadian Open finish, and Alex Bregman

  15-06-2023 04:45
  
  NICK TAYLOR was celebrating one of the great moments in golf history after draining a remarkable 72-foot putt and becoming the first Canadian to win his country's golf championship in 69 years. Then in less than a minute, his accomplishment was upstaged by a security guard mistakenly tackling and body-slamming to the ground fellow countryman Adam Hadwin, who had approached Taylor to celebrate by spraying him with champagne. But the takedown was perfectly executed. Perhaps Danny Gonzales could sh
  
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• APD applauded for reform progress, but groups caution against complacency

  15-06-2023 04:33
  
  The Department of Justice and Independent Monitor mostly applauded the Albuquerque Police Department's progress — while cautioning against complacency in the home stretch — in the latest hearing on its federally-mandated reform efforts.Judge James Browning oversaw a June 6 hearing where major players gave updates and insight into what APD has done, and has left to do, to reach full compliance with the Court Approved Settlement Agreement, known as CASA.The hearing came weeks after the
  
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• Editorial: NM must keep pressure on illegal animal fighting

  15-06-2023 04:00
  
  Well, we sure can't say it isn't happening here.Albuquerque police broke up a cockfighting operation on Sunday and confiscated six fighting roosters, some with razor blades and other lethal attachments. One rooster was dead. Another was severely injured.About 20 people fled when police arrived at the Southeast Albuquerque home. Police said the alleged main organizer, 30-year-old Adolfo Gonzales, will be summoned to court to face cockfighting charges. Eleven other people received citations.Jessic
  
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• Editorial: Let’s get politics and cash out of judicial races

  15-06-2023 04:00
  
  There's just something a little untoward about seeing judges on the campaign trail. Judges are supposed to be impartial, not part of a slate of party candidates pushing an ideology and soliciting campaign donations.Explaining New Mexico's unusual system of choosing judges can be difficult. In a nutshell, metropolitan, district, Court of Appeals and Supreme Court judges are either elected or are appointed by the governor to fill a vacancy after being vetted and recommended by bipartisan judicial
  
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• Asha, the lone wolf in northern New Mexico, moved back to Arizona

  15-06-2023 01:55
  
  Female wolf 2755, which wildlife advocates have named Asha, seen here at a wolf management facility outside of Socorro. It was a temporary stay. Asha was released back into the wild last week. (Courtesy Mexican Wolf Interagency Field Team)She walked 500 miles across Arizona and New Mexico deserts in search of a mate, turned her nose up at a potential suitor and is now back on the prowl as a single lady in southeastern Arizona.An endangered Mexican gray wolf who roamed out of the species' recove
  
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• Longtime Sen. Mark Moores of ABQ to forgo reelection

  15-06-2023 00:45
  
  Sen. Mark Moores, R-Albuquerque, center, with Senate Minority Whip Craig Brandt, R-Rio Rancho, left, and Sen. Antoinette Sedillo Lopez, D-Albuquerque, right, questions Rep. Daymon Ely, D-Corrales, in 2022 about proposed changes to a panel that reviews harassment complaints. (Eddie Moore/Albuquerque Journal)SANTA FE — Sen. Mark Moores, an Albuquerque Republican who has worked across party lines on animal welfare and other legislation, won't run for reelection next year.The decision not to
  
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• Pitching In: Public Service Company of New Mexico donates tablets for Isleta students

  15-06-2023 00:06
  
  Children and representatives from the Isleta Pueblo pose next to tablets donated by PNM. (Courtesy of PNM)PNM donates tablets for Isleta studentsPublic Service Company of New Mexico has donated 40 tablets to Isleta Department of Education to support education efforts for children of the pueblo, according to a news release."We are proud to support the Pueblo of Isleta Department of Education in their efforts to provide educational resources to teach and maintain their Tiwa language," said Don Ta
  
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