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.
An internal poll of Democratic members of Congress, leaked to The Hill, shows Rep. Harry Teague is a “no” vote on the most robust version of the public option the paper says.
Those not on the list (pdf), including Congressmen Ben Ray Lujan and Martin Heinrich, are solid “yes” votes on a robust public option, The Hill reports.
Teague is concerned with the costs of a health care reform bill, Teague Communications Director Sara Screiber said to NMI in an e-mail earlier this week.
“We should keep in mind that our goal here isn’t to give big health insurance companies another 40 million customers,” Screiber said. “Our goal needs to be lowering individual health care costs, bringing down the cost of health care for everyone, and controlling deficit spending.”
“Right now, the House proposal does not do enough to address these issues.”
According to a map by National Public Radio, 25 percent of adults under the age of 65 in Teague’s district are uninsured, while 10.3 percent of those under the age of 18 are uninsured.
But an Albuquerque Journal poll from last month showed that a plurality of New Mexicans opposed a public health insurance provision, though support for the public option in national polls have increased since then; this is the only poll to gauge support for the public option in the state of New Mexico.
The Democratic whip count is embedded below.
