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 Senate met for a few hours Wednesday afternoon and then from 8:30 until past midnight. On our live blog we had a great conversation about medical cannabis with Deborah Busemeyer of the N.M. Department of Heath and a lively chat with Sen. Dede Feldman and Steve Allen of Common Cause about why the open conference committees bill hasn’t been heard. After that we talked with Patricia Sauthoff of the Santa Fe Reporter and Benson Hendrix of UNM about the failure of Sen. Peter Wirth’s amendment to the budget bill, which would have restored $3 million in funding for the College of Santa Fe. Click the box below to read the transcript.
Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez said Wednesday afternoon that Sen. Dede Feldman’s open conference committees bill would likely be heard this evening, but it was bumped again.
