Health care services in Grant County especially mental health services and abortion rights were among the hot topics at Monday evening’s Daily Press-sponsored forum for Democratic candidates for District 39 state representative. Hopefuls Karen Whitlock and Rudy Martinez squared off throughout the hour-and-a-half debate, and though they expressed similar opinions, their methods, beliefs and experiences served to differentiate them. In her opening statement, Whitlock highlighted her work as …
The first of three Daily Press candidate forums for this year’s June primary elections was held at Western New Mexico University’s Besse-Forward Global Resource Center on Thursday evening, where incumbent District 2 Grant County Commissioner Javier Salas was joined by his opponent in the Democratic primary, Eloy Medina. Daily Press Publisher Nickolas Seibel posed questions from the newspaper’s reporters and from the audience to each candidate, who was allotted two …
The Daily Press will once again hold a series of candidate forums in advance of the June 7 major party primary election, marking the ninth year that the newspaper has hosted the events. The forums, which will all take place in the auditorium of Western New Mexico University’s Besse-Forward Global Resource Center, will pose written questions from audience members and the newspaper’s reporters to candidates in competitive races. Candidates will …