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 New Mexico House Judiciary Committee met late in the evening, discussing a big campaign finance reform bill and, a bill that aims to limit the ability of non-profits. Neither was passed out of the committee. Click the window below to read the transcript.
The campaign finance measure is a committee substitute for HB 252 and HB 272, by Albuquerque Reps. Al Park and Gail Chasey, respectively.
The non-profits bill is Rep. Paul Bandy’s HB 808. As NMI has reported, HB 808, sponsored by Rep. Paul Bandy, R-Aztec, was previously amended with substitute language that makes it virtually a mirror image of legislation already being sought by House Majority Leader Ken Martinez and Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez.
Bandy’a bill requires non-profits to list donors who give more than $1,000 if the nonprofits participated in “electioneering,” which is defined as the naming of a political candidate in a piece of literature or a broadcast ad that targets the candidate’s constituency in the three months prior to a primary election and the three months prior to the general election.
