Proposed Salary Cuts No Laughing Matter to Public Employees

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(SUNfoto by Sarah Welsh) Northern New Mexico College employees Johnny Martinez (left) and Ignacio Coronado joke with Gov. Bill Richardson March 13 during a visit to the Roundhouse. The employees were urging legislators to find a way to solve the state’s budget crisis that doesn’t involve funding cuts to colleges and their employees. Coronado said he elicited this laugh from Richardson by telling him they need lana, a Spanish slang word for money. “‘Give us some lana,’” Coronado said. “‘We need money,’ I told him.”

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    State legislators are slashing programs left and right in a desperate attempt to balance the budget, and now they’ve hit a nerve. Under a bill pending in the state Senate, nearly all public employees would have to pony up…

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