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A girl holds an Iranian flag during a memorial for school children who were killed during a strike on a school in southern town of Minab on Feb. 28, in downtown Tehran, Iran, Tuesday, April 7, 2026. (AP Photo/Vahid Salemi)
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The Albuquerque City Council killed a proposal Monday night to use ranked choice voting for municipal elections.
This New Mexico well, owned by Ridgeway Arizona, last produced oil in 1982, even though it was marked as "active" in the state's database in 2023. A recent lawsuit could make it more difficult for oil and gas operators to sell old wells like this to companies that can't afford to pay to plug them.
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Suit claims ExxonMobil and others underreported debts by $194 million, calling it “a playbook” for how companies dump old wells and expenses on states.
Let's Talk New Mexico
Albuquerque Job Corps
This week on Let’s Talk New Mexico, we’ll be checking out the Job Corps program, as well as similar youth-oriented programs that serve different purposes, like the Rocky Mountain Youth Corps. We’ll speak to youth who are currently enrolled in the programs and those who have graduated to find out how their experience has affected their lives.