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 state’s budget appropriation bill is “$312 million dollars richer than revenues are willing to support,” state Sen. John Arthur Smith, D-Deming said Monday. So the Senate Finance Committee, which Smith chairs, has canceled all agency hearings until members have a clearer picture of the budget. “I just want them to come by one time and tell us how they are going to be able to live with the cuts the Senate Finance Committee will be imposing on those agencies, ” Smith said.
In the following video Sen. Smith talks more about House Bill 2, the appropriation budget. And he says if it’s heavy on tax increases and light on on cuts it will have a hard time in the Senate.