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.
Three state senators want the Legislature’s budget committee to examine how much money will be pulled from brick-and-mortar project in tribal communities compared to how much places like Albuquerque will lose.
A bill introduced in the state Senate this week would pull $150 million from more than 1,500 stalled brick-and-mortar projects around the state.
The money from the projects would help New Mexico beef up this year’s reserves, but the effects would be felt all over the state. And senators George Muñoz, Lynda Lovejoy and John Pinto worry that communities in and around the Navajo Nation like Gallup would be hit harder by the legislation than non-tribal communities, Muñoz said.
Muñoz said the loss of money for projects in Albuquerque equated to a loss of $69 per person, whereas the loss was the equivalent of $209 per person in McKinley County.
The legislation that claws back money from the brick-and-mortar projects promises to be one of the most avidly parsed pieces of legislation this session. Over the next few days, many state lawmakers will review the over 60-page list to see if one or more of their projects is targeted. The gyms, senior centers and bridges built with state money money are often viewed as tangible evidence of what the lawmakers are doing for the districts.
But some of the projects on the target list have nothing to do with individual legislators and are for everything from museum additions to expansions to pre-Kindergarten classrooms.
