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.
Leaders in the House and Senate sent out an advisory to the media this morning announcing that state lawmakers would hold a press conference shortly after noon. The subject: how the last piece of a budget package to address this year’s $450 million budget shortfall was expected to clear the Senate today.
Somebody should have checked.
That last piece of the budget package — House Bill 9 — isn’t being voted on by the Senate today. It appears that the legislation hasn’t even made it over from the House, which approved it 65-0.
The last piece of the budget package will take money from stalled capital outlay or brick-and-mortar projects across the state.
That complication changed the press conference. As in, it quickly became a press conference featuring House leaders. Senate leaders might hold their own press conference later this week.
