In New Mexico a municipality may call itself a: village, town, or city. There is no distinction in the statutes and no correlation to any particular form (Mayor-Council, Commission-Manager, etc.).
Unless provided otherwise in a municipality's charter, municipal elections are held on the first Tuesday in March of every even-numbered year. (New Mexico Statutes section 3-8-25) Elections are non-partisan, and election materials (cards, signs, ads, etc.) are exempted from the requirements for all other elections that the responsible party be identified (as in "paid for by Committee to Elect Joe Candidate").
In addition to municipalities, limited local authority can be vested in landowners' associatons and districts. An example of the former is the Madrid Landowners' Association, which is the closest thing to local govenment in Madrid, New Mexico. Its authority comes from the restrictive covenants that are written into all deeds.
NewMexico’s nearness to the Mexican border is an extra susceptibility to illegal drugs smuggled through the major unguarded borders.
NewMexico also has a severe shortage of physicians and this shortage has led to the State granting prescription permission to physicians from other states.
NewMexico has recently become one of the few states to grant prescribing authority to psychologists who have no medical or pharmaceutical training.
NewMexico is centered on the Rio Grande valley, the historical center of Spanish settlement and conquest of the Pueblo people, Native American tribes who lived in small towns along the Rio Grande and nearby as at Acoma.
NewMexico's economy is heavily tied to government and military spending, with federal properties such as the national laboratories at Los Alamos and Sandia and the missile and spacecraft proving grounds at White Sands adding greatly to local economies.
According to the Census Bureau, as of the 2003, the population of NewMexico was 1,874,614.
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