• Another coffee shop downtown. While you're there hit up the third location of Rebel Donut in the Simms Building.
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• A new leader for New Mexico PBS (formerly KNME). I hope things improve so I don't have to…

On Washington near Lomas.

In August of 1846 General Stephen Kearney stood on the roof of a low adobe structure on the plaza of Las Vegas, NM.  He looked down at the assembled crowd.  “We come amongst you as friends--not enemies,” he read, and claimed the area for the United States.  That low adobe building still stands, and Kearney’s whole fascinating proclamation is immortalized on a nearby plaque in the plaza.



In fact, much of historical Las Vegas still stands.  It has more structures on the various historical registries than any other town in the state--over 900.



Las Vegas, like Albuquerque, was built with two…

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