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.
The current health care proposal is “probably as close as we’re going to get to a credible health care reform proposal,” U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman told the Farmington Daily-Times editorial board. Democratic leaders in the House and Senate and President Barack Obama have been working to reconcile the differences between the two versions of the health care bill to craft a final bill.
The U.S. Senate voted on Christmas Eve to pass health care reform by a 60-39 vote, with all Democrats, and both Independents who caucus with Democrats, voting for the bill and all Republicans voting against; Sen. Jim Bunning, R-Ky., was not present for the vote. Both New Mexico Senators, Bingaman and Tom Udall, were among the Democrats who voted for the bill.
Republican Party chairman Harvey Yates Jr. called health care reform efforts a “government takeover” and warned that he believes the individual mandate, which would require every citizen to purchase health insurance or face a penalty, is unconstitutional.
Sen. Bingaman sits on both Senate committees, the Finance Committee and the Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, that were involved in creating a health care bill.
