The state Crime Victims Reparation Commission is asking the legislature for $4.47 million for the upcoming fiscal year to help victims of violent crime. Frank Zubia, director of CVRC, spoke during an interim Legislative Finance Committee hearing on Tuesday and said $1 million of the request is to offset the loss of federal funding that […]
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By Robert Nott, The Santa Fe New Mexican A bill to make missing or murdered Indigenous people or their dependents eligible for economic relief earned unanimous support from a Senate committee Thursday. Native victims and their family members currently do not fall under the qualifying guidelines under the state’s Crime Victims Reparation Act, said Sen. Shannon […]
By Ed Williams and Wufei Yu, Searchlight New Mexico |
December 23, 2020
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Richard Yue, one of the workers in Bryan Peng s New Mexico workforce, setting up greenhouses at the Big Buddha Farms in Oklahoma
MONTEREY PARK, Calif. Irving Lin, a jovial entrepreneur in his late 60’s, wanted to share a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, a near-miraculous way out of the economic devastation wrought on Southern California’s Chinese communities by the pandemic: the gift of marijuana.
“We are making a fortune in Oklahoma, and you can too,” Lin, speaking in Mandarin, told a crowd of 30 potential investors gathered for a PowerPoint presentation at a Chinese cultural center on Dec. 5. The return on investment is as high as 1,200 percent, Lin explained eagerly. Finance one greenhouse, and you’ll walk away with $300,000. Three greenhouses will make you a millionaire.