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 House, by a vote of 66-0, passed the legislation shortly after noon that would open legislative conference committees to the public.
Conference committees are closed-door meetings where legislators iron out key differences on competing versions of the same bill.
Similar legislation has failed in previous sessions because some state lawmakers have argued that if legislative meetings are opened then judicial and executive agency meetings should be opened as well.
The bill, sponsored by Rep. Joseph Cervantes, D-Las Cruces, now goes to the Senate, where it has not fared well in the past.
