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.
On Saturday, the New Mexico Legislature held a conference committee meeting that was open to the public.
Yes, really. Though a bill approved earlier this week that would require open conference committees hasn’t been acted on by the governor and, even if it had been, wouldn’t take effect for months, lawmakers voluntarily opened to the public a conference committee on Senate Bill 584, sponsored by Gerald Ortiz y Pino, D-Albuquerque.
“It might be a historical event,” Sen. John Arthur Smith, D-Deming, said in announcing the open meeting on the Senate floor. Smith has always opposed opening conference committees to the public in the past.
The meeting was held in Room 322 at the Roundhouse. Dave Maass, a writer for The Santa Fe Reporter tweeted from the meeting and his tweets were fed into the Independent’s live blog.
The Ortiz y Pino bill would allow the issuance of state bonds for renewable energy transmission and storage projects.
