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.
Gov. Bill Richardson’s proclamation defines what the Legislature can work on during the special session. It contains this sentence:
Legislation concerning the object of this proclamation Shall not include measures reducing salaries or raising tax rates, reducing or eliminating tax credits, rebates, exemptions or deductions or imposing new taxes.
That seems to be a pretty direct message: We’re not discussing raising taxes or generating revenue through the elimination of tax credits or deductions.
A proclamation isn’t the final word, and Richardson can always expand the focus of the special legislative session with new messages.
Richardson’s message seemed clear. But that didn’t stop legislators from filing a flurry of tax bills minutes after the governor’s proclamation was read out. One would change how the state would collect the corporate income tax. Another would require the state to create a tax expenditure report.
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