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.
U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman will participate in a teleconference to discuss health care reform legislation with his fellow members of the Senate Finance Committee’s “Gang of Six” according to “sources familiar with the agenda,” Roll Call reports.
The six key senators “are expected to spend a significant amount of time comparing notes on town hall meetings they have held since the recess began Aug. 7,” Roll Call reports. Bingaman, a New Mexico Democrat, has held two town hall meetings since the August recess.
One was yesterday in Clovis, the second was this afternoon in Silver City. Bingaman will hold a town hall meeting in Reserve at Reserve High School on Friday and hold a town hall meeting in Albuquerque on Monday. The Monday health care town hall meeting is organized by New Mexico First.
The five-term senator will join Senate Finance Chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont., ranking member Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, Kent Conrad, D-N.D.,and Mike Enzi, R-Wy., and Olympia Snowe R-Maine, on the phone call.
