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Feb. 2 First News: Immigrant Action Day Protest To Target Driver License Repeal Effort (Listen)

In her state of the state address opening the 2015 New Mexico Legislative Session, Governor Susana Martinez indicated her support—for the sixth time—for action widely considered a so-called wedge issue.*****020215-ImmigrantActionDay 2:06 Q: ..people from Mexico.” ***** Senator Martinez is among many Democrats lining up in opposition, and Democratic Majority Leader Michael Sanchez has pledged to kill the repeal proposal.  Today’s protest march and rally led by Somos Un Pueblo Unido begins at 11am at the Railyard Park and continues at Noon at the Roundhouse.

Governor Susana Martinez is pushing legislation that would let small business owners deduct their business income from personal income taxes. Martinez and state Representative Sarah- Maestas Barnes announced the proposal Saturday in Albuquerque. They say the targeted tax relief will help small businesses that are just getting off the ground. Under the bill, small business owners with less than 200-thousand dollars in taxable income and less than 350-thousand dollars in total net business income would be eligible. Martinez says the legislation would allow entrepreneurs to expand and hire more workers. Maestas Barnes says mom and pop stores are what drive the state's economy.

Police say a woman selling drugs made a big mistake that landed her in jail — she mistakenly called an Albuquerque police detective. KOB-TV reports that 30-year-old ReneaLucero was arrested last week when she called the detective at his department-issued cellphone and made the officer an unexpected offer. Court documents say the detective knew Lucero from a prior criminal case. But the report says he didn't think Lucero realized who she had dialed. The officer then set up a drug bust. The detective says Lucero pulled the heroin out of her bra during a sting. Lucero was arrested on trafficking charges.

An Albuquerque-based restaurant chain has closed its Santa Fe and Bernalillo locations and is filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The owners of Flying Star Cafe closed restaurants in Bernalillo and Santa Fe on Friday amid an outstanding debt of more than six-million. Husband and wife Jean and Mark Bernstein own the 28-year-old company. Jean Bernstein says between 40 and 45 jobs have been lost due to the closures. But some of those employees will be transferred to another location. Flying Star will continue operating as a debtor in possession of its business under a Chapter 11 business reorganization. The company will also still operate a food production business and eight Satellite Coffee shops in Albuquerque.

A New Mexico appeals court may overturn a ruling against a high school student's lawsuit against the state calling for air quality protection. The New Mexican reports the New Mexico Court of Appeals heard arguments Tuesday in then-16-year-old Akilah Sanders-Reed's 2011 suit, saying the state is obligated to protect the public's air quality. A state district judge ruled against Sanders-Reed, who is now a university student in Minnesota. At the time, Sanders-Reed's lawsuit was one of many nationwide as part of an effort to hold states responsible for greenhouse gas emissions. The suits argued using a legal concept known as the public trust doctrine. The three-judge panel will decide if the state has a duty under that doctrine. When they make a ruling has not been determined.

Two pilots in a helium-filled balloon landed safely off the coast of Mexico on Saturday after a nearly 7,000-mile long trip across the Pacific Ocean. The pilots landed off Baja California about 300 miles north of Cabo San Lucas, greeted by a team of balloon enthusiasts who assisted with the landing. The pilots came in low and dropped thick trailing ropes into the ocean to help slow the balloon before setting down in a controlled water landing. The trip shattered two long-standing records for ballooning. Troy Bradley of Albuquerque and Leonid Tiukhtyaev (too-kh-TY'-yev) of Russia beat what's considered the "holy grail" of ballooning achievements, the 137-hour duration record in the first balloon flight across the Atlantic. They also easily exceeded the distance record of 5,209 miles set during the first trans-Pacific flight in 1981.

Santa Fe Weather: Mostly sunny today with the high hitting 44. It’ll be mostly clear tonight with the overnight low, 26. Tomorrow: Sunny with a high of 48.