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.
Sens. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., Byron Dorgan, D-N.D., and Jay Rockefeller, D-W.V., all voiced their opposition to revenue-sharing with states in the offshore-drilling drilling proposal put forward by the White House last month.
“The fiscal consequences of such a loss would be devastating, particularly given the enormous demands on the federal Treasury and our need to reduce the deficit,” the trio wrote in a letter tho their colleague sin the Senate on Friday and quoted in the New York Times today.
The opposition from the three could put a potential monkey-wrench in plans for a comprehensive energy bill. The proposal is considered necessary to help break the 60-vote barrier needed to end a filibuster in the Senate.
