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.
Wednesday is the last day lawmakers can introduce bills for the 2010 legislative session but already the numbers show the number of bills in the roundhouse is way down. In terms of raw numbers you have to go back to the 80′s to find numbers as low as what the legislature is looking at in 2010.
As of Wednesday morning the Legislative Council Service (LCS) says lawmakers have dropped 514 bills. That’s 262 from the House and 252 from the Senate. Compare that to the last 30-day session in 2008 when 1,170 bills were dropped. And just four years ago the Legislature brought what is likely a record high of 1,617 bills.
The 514 bills as of Wednesday morning will certainly grow in the last day. There is no set time for a deadline.
