Rep. has plan to ease reuse of vacant rural buildings

Tucumcari, NM (Sixgun Siding)

(Santa Fe New Mexican) When Rebecca Dow decided to run for the state House of Representatives, she drove around her sprawling district and saw run-down vacant buildings in communities, often in or near downtowns.
  Dow, a Republican from Truth or Consequences, is now serving her first term in the House, and she has a plan to get businesses into those shuttered buildings instead of signing leases for newer properties on the outskirts of small towns. Continued