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.
Though a vote was originally scheduled for Thursday evening, Christmas Eve, the Democratic and Republican leadership in the Senate have agreed to instead push the vote on health care reform forward to Thursday morning.
The agreement between Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., was announced Tuesday morning.
Republicans have used a variety of procedural tricks to slow down health care reform, including forcing a full reading of an amendment, something virtually always dispensed with by unanimous consent.
Republicans demanded the amendment be read aloud in full on the Senate floor. Throughout Saturday, clerks took turns reading to a nearly empty chamber, in a gesture Republicans hoped would dramatize the closed-door dealings by Democrats.
However, it appears the possibility of missing Christmas Eve with families was too much delay for the Republicans.
The Senate will also vote Thursday to give approval to a two-month increase in the federal debt limit.
