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.
Talking Points Memo has received a classified document which shows the amount of money in the stimulus bill after coming out of conference as compared to the House and Senate versions.
And on the second page of the document, it shows the House version prevailed on funding for the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA). The NNSA is part of the Department of Energy, which runs both Los Alamos and Sandia National Labs.
The House did not appropriate any money for the NNSA, but the Senate version had $900 million for the NNSA. The final version has none.
But more money is there, apparently, for “defense environmental cleanup” under the heading of “Environmental and Other Defense Activities.” The conference version gives $6 billion for this, some of which would most likely benefit New Mexico, as Los Alamos and Sandia National Labs both do nuclear weapons research.
However, the congressional delegation in New Mexico — and educators — won’t be happy with one final cut from the House version. The $14 billion for school K-12 school construction that was in the House bill but not in the Senate bill is not in the conference version. Neither is the $6 billion that the House wanted to go to higher education facilities.
The New Mexico House delegation had urged House and Senate leaders to have that money put in the final version of the bill, to no avail.
