New+Mexico

New Mexico

Senators: KYANDA F8 (G), MVITULLO D3 (I)

Representatives: KGRAY F4 (D)

New Mexico flag- The middle is a red sun, with 16 rays pointing in 4 different directions. THis is an ancient indian symbol representing the four directions (north,south, east, west), the four seasons (summer, fall winter, spring), the day (sunrise, noon, evening, night), and life itself (childhood, youth, middle years, old age) all brought together by a cirlce or life and love, withough a begginning or end- (kgray)

47th state to be admitted on Jan 6, 1912 (kgray)

economy is based mostly on mining and ranching (kgray)

New Mexico's capitol city is Santa Fe. Located at 35" 37" N and 106" 5" W(M. Vitullo) New Mexico also covers 121,598 sq feet of land.(M.Vitullo) Santa Fe has a population around 60,000 people. They are the 5th most largest state in the USA (M.Vitullo)

[[New mexico|[] (kyanda)  [[image:http://www.psfa.k12.nm.us/zope/nm_state_seal_img width="167" height="212"]]This is the New Mexico state seal.New Mexico's Seal originated in the 1851 with the formation of the Territory of New Mexico. The New Mexico territorial seal had an American eagle, and the words "Great Seal of the Territory NM". In the early 1860's, the Territory of New Mexico had a seal that showed the wings of the American eagle protectively stretching out over a smaller Mexican eagle. "The motto "Crescit Eundo", or "It grows as it goes", was added in 1882, and displays on a banner below the eagles. When New Mexico gained statehood in 1912, the seal was amended to read "Great Seal of the State of New Mexico", and the date of its statehood, 1912, was added to the bottom arc of the seal." (Kyanda)

Santa Fe is the capital of New Mexico. David Coss is the mayor right now. He has  co-sponsored Santa Fe’s Living Wage Ordinance, this is a landmark law. A He has also co-sponsored the Neighborhood Bill of Rights, this empowers local citizens to keep the honesty of their neighborhoods, and Santa Fe Homes, requiring 30% of all new developments within the city to be affordable housing.  (Kyanda)

Weird NEW Mexico laws   (all of the laws above were taken from [])
 * In Raton, it is illegal for a woman to ride horseback down a public street with a kimono on.
 * The Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary is banned in Carlsbad.
 * State officials ordered 400 words of ``sexually explicit material'' to be cut from Romeo and Juliet