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 bill to approve domestic partnerships just failed in the Senate Judiciary Committee on a 5 to 5 tie. Sen. Bernadette Sanchez, who was the swing vote, walked out of the committee room shortly before the vote, and walked back in after the vote was over.
Sanchez said the bill would have died if she had voted, because she would have voted no.
That means the bill, for all practical purposes, is dead at this time in the Senate. The House has a version of the same bill, and that could make it over to the Senate. But Sanchez said she would vote no if the House version made it over to the Senate.
As anyone who has observed a legislative body knows, however, it’s dangerous to say anything is definitely dead. Nothing is confirmed dead until the session is over.
