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.
State Sen. Benjamin Rodefer, D-Corrales, responded to Senate Public Affairs Committees’ addition of a committee hearing to a domestic partnership bill by writing on Twitter that he his “ashamed of the Senate’s actions.” He also wrote, “The founding of this Country was predicated on equality, equality for everyone, no exceptions.”
The Senate Public Affairs Committee voted by a 5-4 vote to send the bill to the Senate Finance Committee in addition to the Senate Judiciary Committee.
A member of that committee, Eric Griego, D-Albuquerque, said during debate on whether or not to send the bill to the Senate Finance Committee, “Three committee assignments would kill this bill.”
The Chief Clerk of the Senate, Lenore Naranjo, told the New Mexico Independent afterward that there is precedent for a committee to add another committee referral to a bill.
The Senate Judiciary Committee is set to consider the bill on Wednesday.
