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.
Congress is recessed for Veteran’s Day, so members of Congress are in their districts. The news out of Washington D.C. is still mostly focused on health care reform, but the attention has turned from the House to the Senate.
Talking Points Memo reports on dueling timelines on health care reform. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., wants to bring the bill to the floor next week and pass it by Christmas. But Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill., says he hopes the bill might not make it to the floor until after Thanksgiving — most likely pushing back the timeline of any passage past Christmas.
Meanwhile, the conservative Tea Party movement seems to be having an effect on the Republican Party across the nation. Public Policy Polling (PPP), a Democratic polling firm, says it isn’t just confined to conservative states, either, but has spread to moderate to liberal states.
“Based on our polling data this year though, I doubt there is any state where an overwhelming majority of Republicans are not conservatives,” Tom Jensen of PPP wrote. He says it is a warning to moderate Republicans everywhere — as is PPP’s poll of Maine Senator Olympia Snowe. He finds that a generic conservative Republican beats the multi-term Senator in a Republican primary matchup.
That led a front-page writer at the liberal blog Daily Kos to hypothesize that it might be time for Snowe to pull an Arlen Specter — that is, switch from the Republican Party to the Democratic Party.
Meanwhile, former President Bill Clinton (or “42″ as Politico calls him) gave a pep talk to Senate Democrats, telling them that passing health care reform is “an economic imperative.”
At that pep talk, Clinton’s reported use of the term “teabaggers” to refer to Tea Party goers angered some conservatives
And PolitiFact says some progressive Democrats’ fears over the Stupak Amendment are unwarranted.
