TODAY'S TOP STORIES: Rapidly rising fuel costs hurt school district
Like the rest of us, school officials in Gallup are looking for solutions to rising fuel costs, with one idea being a four day school week if state government doesn't pony up extra fuel dollars. Apparently, the state reimburses school districts for fuel based on the level of funding for the previous school year, which in Gallup was $560,000. For the school year just ended, fuel costs reached $817,000. The governor's office recently provided the district supplemental funding of $159,407, according to the Gallup Independent, but the district is still short $100,000 due to the rapid rise in fuel costs this year.
Saying the "violence continues," the Las Cruces Sun-News yesterday reported a grisly list of murders in Juarez over last weekend. But babies are being born also, this time on the Bridge of Americas.
Charges against a KOB photographer who was arrested for refusing to obey a police officer have been dismissed by a judge, and the officer has been suspended by the Albuquerque Police Department. The judge said the office, Daniel Guzman, "over-stepped his bounds."
The New York Times highlights the "Terminator Salvation" film being shot in Albuquerque in a feature about a possible actors strike. The Screen Actors Guild contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers expired at midnight last night without a new one in place.
Start watching those Starbucks stores. The company announced yesterday it would close 600 stores, spread throughout the nation. The AP reports that about 70 percent will be stores opened in the past two years, and the "vast majority" were stores that had been opened near an existing company owned store. Company officials said 25 to 30 percent of a store's revenue is "cannibalized" when another Starbucks is opened nearby.
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