PNM expects average gas bill to increase by $7
ALBUQUERQUE (AP) - Heating costs will be high this winter because of increased natural gas prices, utilities and analysts say.
Final figures won't be available until the end of September, but PNM expects the price of natural gas to increase from about 49 cents to almost 55 cents per therm in October - about double the price last October.
That would mean an average residential bill of about $29, about $7 higher than last October.
New Mexico named poor for teaching history
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SANTA FE (AP) - New Mexico has earned an F in history.
It was one of 23 states rated ineffective in a state-by-state analysis of education standards for teaching history in kindergarten through high school. The analysis was released Monday by the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit organization that researches programs to improve elementary and secondary education.
New Mexico ranked 28th, tied with the District of Columbia, Mississippi, New Jersey and Vermont with a score of 12, or 40 percent, on a 30-point scale.
California recall election draws further criticism
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - A federal appeals court heard arguments Monday about whether to let California's gubernatorial recall election go forward on Oct. 7, sparring with a constitutional scholar on whether the Supreme Court's Bush v. Gore decision is grounds for postponing the vote. Harvard University scholar Laurence Tribe, who argued for the Democrats in the Florida dispute that reached the Supreme Court in 2000, said allowing some counties to use error-prone punch-card ballots will cause thousands of votes to go uncounted.
Iran takes step back in allowing more oversight
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) - Iran will scale back its cooperation with the U.N. nuclear watchdog in response to the agency's Oct. 31 deadline for Tehran to prove its atomic programs are peaceful, Iran's representative to the agency said Monday. Ali Akbar Salehi said on state television that Iran had been allowing the International Atomic Energy Agency more oversight than required under the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty "to show our good will and transparency."
