Gov. Michelle Lujan’s drought declaration missed a few points

Gov. Michelle Lujan’s drought declaration missed a few points

Smoke billows from a wildfire in the cottonwood forest along the Rio Grande in Socorro County, New Mexico, on April 27. (Jerry Redfern)In late May, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham’s office sent out a press release announcing an executive order that declared a drought emergency and state of emergency in New Mexico. The order itself was missing two things: It didn’t actually include an emergency declaration, and it didn’t say why the state was in the …