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.
Former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici has been out of office for half a year, but some of his earmarks are still making their way through the Senate and into appropriations bills. Jonathon Allen at CQ Politics notes that a $4 million homeland security appropriation is coming to New Mexico, writing, “it was clearly Domenici’s baby.”
The Albuquerque Republican, who now works at the Bipartisan Policy Center in Washington D.C., was well known for the massive amounts of federal money he was able to bring into the state.
Allen wrote:
Members of the Senate’s Homeland Security Appropriations Subcommittee laid claim to more than $143 million of the $156 million in earmarks in the panel’s bill, a staggering degree of self-help, even in the world of appropriations.
Of the remaining $13 million, $4 million went to a project in New Mexico that was long supported by former subcommittee member Pete Domenici, a Republican who retired in January. The earmark is attributed to the state’s two senators, Democrats Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, but it was clearly Domenici’s baby.
