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Sheryl Anderson has a word with party boy Blue, her service animal and constant companion. Anderson credits her big cloned dog for helping her get her life back together. She threw a party for Blue’s 10th birthday on Wednesday. (Roberto E. Rosales/Albuquerque Journal.)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. If you’ve seen Blue around town, you know him.
And if you know him, you love him.
That is, unless your heart is four times too small when it comes to dogs.
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Blue, it should be noted, is four times too big for an average dog. And very little is average about this 166-pound half-Great Dane/half-Neapolitan mastiff.
The UNM Libraries Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections (CSWR) will soon receive the congressional papers, photographs, audiovisual materials, digital files and memorabilia of New Mexico Senator Tom Udall.
Following a distinguished career spanning two decades on Capitol Hill representing the people of New Mexico, Udall announced in March 2019 that he would not be seeking re-election, but would remain committed to public service after his Senate term ends on January 3, 2021.
Udall began serving as New Mexico’s 17th United States Senator in 2009, after 20 years of public service as U.S. Representative and New Mexico s State Attorney General. As New Mexico s senior senator, he has served on the Senate Committees for Appropriations, Foreign Relations, Commerce, Indian Affairs, and Rules and Administration.
Now we don t have to hide when we go up into the mountains, Gilbert Suazo said in a recent interview. Now, we can freely go where we want to go on our lands and not have to worry about getting arrested or prosecuted.
Suazo, a Taos Pueblo councilman and former tribal governor, said the joy of being able to practice his Native religion unencumbered by outside control was indescribable. It was a spiritual burden finally lifted 50 years ago, when he and his fellow tribal members conducted their first ceremonials after President Richard Nixon signed legislation in Washington D.C., returning the Blue Lake watershed to the people of Taos Pueblo. It was an act that closed a circle which had burned in the hearts and minds of generations - many of whom started the journey to have the sacred lands returned and never saw its end.
Thatâs when the federal government returned the Blue Lake watershed to his tribe.
âNow we donât have to hide when we go up into the mountains,â said Suazo, a former Taos Pueblo governor. âNow, we can freely go where we want to go on our lands and not have to worry about getting arrested or prosecuted.â
Suazo and fellow tribal members conducted their first ceremonials in December 1970 after President Richard Nixon signed legislation returning Blue Lake to the people of Taos Pueblo.
However, many who started the 64-year journey to have the sacred lands returned never saw its end.