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.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev. and Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., have both asserted that health care reform legislation will pass this year, the AP reports. Both cited the address to a joint session of Congress by President Barack Obama Wednesday night as giving health care reform legislation more momentum.
While both Reid and Pelosi said they favored a public option, neither seem married to the provision.
Reid said that while he favors a strong “public option,” he could be satisfied with establishment of nonprofit cooperatives, along the lines expected to be included in the bill taking shape in the Finance Committee.
Pelosi, who has long favored a measure that allows the government to sell insurance, passed up a chance to say it was a nonnegotiable demand.
As long as legislation makes quality health care more accessible and affordable, “we will go forward with that bill,” she said.
Of course, there was also that August deadline which, obviously, was not reached.
