I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
The state Senate just recessed for an hour so that a powerful legislative committee can meet to discuss committee assignments.
There is much interest in who is selected as chairs to Senate committees after the Senate Democratic caucus was divided over a battle for the Senate president pro tem post. Some lawmakers have publicly worried that they might lose their chairmanships because they backed the wrong candidate.
Senate President Pro Tem Tim Jennings, D-Roswell, named an 11-member panel, including the Senate’s five Democratic and Republican leaders — Jennings, Majority Leader Michael Sanchez, Majority Whip Mary Jane Garcia, Republican leader Stuart Ingle and Republican Whip William Payne.
Jennings also named six other members — five Democrats and one Republican. They are: Sen. Carlos Cisneros, D-Questa; Sen. William Sharer, R-Farmington; Sen. John Arthur Smith, D-Deming; Sen. Cynthia Nava, D-Las Cruces; Sen. George Muñoz, D-Gallup; and Sen. Tim Keller, D-Albuquerque.
