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Martinez cuts all higher education funding By Elizabeth Sanchez @Beth_A_Sanchez
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Governor Susana Martinez attends a Higher Education Summit on Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015 at the UNM SUB. Martinez vetoed the New Mexico Legislature’s budget for higher education and proposed her own version.
Last week, Gov. Susana Martinez vetoed all funding for public universities and colleges by signing the House Appropriations and Finance Committee substitute for House Bills 2 and 3. In a statement, Martinez said legislators “wasted” their 60-day session on official state song and dance bills, resulting in a budget imbalance and one of the largest tax increases the state has ever seen. Martinez noted that she has felt “disappointed” in legislators before, but cannot remember ever feeling the way she does now. “Their reckless decisions had left New Mexico hanging in the balance,” Martinez said. Debra Haaland, the chairwoman of Democratic Party of New Mexico, said this is just another example of Martinez’ “failed agenda.” “Time and again Governor Martinez’s Republican priorities have left New Mexico families behind and pushed our state into economic turmoil,” Haaland said in a statement. “From her first days in office waging a war against our
immigrant communities and pulling behavioral health services right from under our most vulnerable New Mexicans, to pay to play scandals and vetoing all funding for New Mexico’s colleges and universities — the failed Republican agenda continues to negatively affect New Mexico families.” In order to assist the state financially, a hiring freeze has been implemented, and the state is planning to lay off employees starting this month, she said. A government shutdown may be in the near future, forcing the state to close MVDs, museums and state parks in order to pay for other state needs like electricity in classrooms. “In order to return a balanced budget to the legislature, we had to take out the entire higher education budget,” Martinez said. “But there will be time in the special session to fix the higher education budget and the rest of the flawed budget that they sent to us.” Press Secretary at the Office of the Governor Mike Lonergan said this seemed to be the best way to tackle the problem.
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MEN’S BASKETBALL
NMSU head coach to replace Neil at UNM The news that Paul Weir was coming up I-25 to the University of New Mexico after only one year at the helm of NMSU’s program was surprising to most, and shocking to others. Here is a sample of the tweeted responses from both sides of the aisle.
“I hope Paul Weir snakes UNM harder then Steve Alford did” —@edaragon22 “I could be wrong but following Paul Weir from afar the past few years, I doubt UNM is his last stop. In a good professional sense for him.” —@gregpmitchell “After watching this news conference, I have a little bit of hope. Welcome to the Lobo fam Paul Weir, standing by this team no matter what!” —@NicoleSierraa “In a one-on-one interview with new Lobo coach Paul Weir, I can confirm he’s team green chile” —@matt_narvaiz “Thinking about it you can’t blame Paul Weir for not wanting to start his young career coaching in front of 3000 people a night lol.” —@marcusmontoya89 “Paul Weir, you can crash on my couch for a bit until you find a place, if you want!” —@ryanscoresgoals “Can’t wait for the Rio Grande rivalry Down South. Paul Weir might get some Boos… Im definitely going to make that game” —@lobodave16
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Paul Weir speaks during a press conference held at WisePies Arena on Tuesday, April 11, 2017 to announce his move from the New Mexico State Aggies to the University of New Mexico Lobos.
By Isabel Gonzalez @cisabelg The Rio Grande Rivalry has become more real than ever. After an 11-day search for a new men’s basketball head coach, Vice President for Athletics Paul Krebs decided that NMSU’s Paul Weir was the man for the job. Krebs said that although some people described the process as a bit of a
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roller coaster, he thought that from an internal perspective things actually went relatively smoothly. “We ended up where we needed to be,” he said. “The process allowed us to get to the right place to find the best individual, best coach, at this time for the University of New Mexico.” Weir was contacted by UNM on Friday, and by Tuesday it had become official that he would make the switch from crimson red to cherry red. He has now become the first person to be a head coach for both the Aggies and the Lobos.
The 37-year old coach had been at NMSU as the assistant under Marvin Menzies since 2007. After Menzies left to coach UNLV last year, Weir was able to take over. During his first (and only) year as head coach, Weir set a program record by collecting 28 wins and getting the Aggies into the NCAA Tournament. “I was a one-year head coach. I’m coming from New Mexico State. I’m a little bit unknown. But I’m well aware what
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