TODAY'S TOP STORIES: Financial losses and investigations
The Wall Street crisis has affected state and local governments, with Bernalillo County predicting a $2 million to $4 million drop in its annual investment income, the Albuquerque Journal reports. Meanwhile the city of Albuquerque postponed a bond sale and the New Mexico Finance Authority might cancel its own bond sale scheduled for next Thursday, anticipating investors are not in a buying mood, the report says.
The disappearance of 182 votes in Cibola County's June elections is still under investigation, with the Attorney General's office calling it a "front-burner issue" and promising a resolution before Nov. 4, the Gallup Independent reports. The paper says the investigation into paper ballots missing in two county precincts is in its final stages, but that the Attorney General's office has declined to comment further.
Meanwhile, Curry County District Attorney Matt Chandler says he still has questions about last month’s escape at the Curry County jail after reviewing a state police investigative report, the Clovis News Journal reports. Eight male inmates escaped from the Curry County Adult Detention Center on Aug. 24 by shimmying up plumbing pipes and cutting a hole in the roof. Four, including a convicted killer and a suspected killer, remain at large.
Farmington's proposal to ban "high gravity" beer and "fortified" wine has sparked a debate in this northwestern New Mexico city, according to the Farmington Daily Times. Those who cook with and make the beverages object to the blanket ban, which is aimed at the city's public drunkenness problem.
High gravity beer includes brands such as Steel Reserve and Olde English, whose higher sugar content at the beginning of the brewing process given them a higher alcohol content as well. Fortified wine includes sweet wines, such as port and sherry.
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