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.
Sen. Tom Udall called the blockage of Obama administration nominees “unacceptable” in a speech on the Senate floor Friday.
“In the old days, you got to put your people into place in the first couple of weeks of an administration,” Udall said. “I remember my father telling me that he took over as Secretary of the Interior in January — within two weeks, he had all of his presidential employees in place.”
Udall made motions on the floor to consider a bipartisan slate of nominees for positions within the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), but Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., objected to the motions that all must be unanimous to move forward.
“Now we’ve seen demonstrated dramatically what the process is here,” Udall said after Coburn’s objection of three EEOC nominees, according to a press release by Udall’s office. “We tried to move forward here on a bipartisan basis to put Democrats and Republicans into an important government agency – an agency that focuses on fighting discrimination. If these people aren’t in place, they can’t move forward.”
