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. Jeff Bingaman and a number of other U.S. Senators will be involved in a discussion with President Barack Obama on energy legislation that the Senate hopes to pass this year but passage of which looks increasingly dim as time passes and the mid-term elections near.
Bingaman has been pushing an energy-only bill that many progressives dislike, but observers think that a comprehensive climate and energy bill has little chance of gaining the 60 votes needed in the Senate to invoke cloture and break a filibuster by Republicans.
There are just 30 days left in the Senate calendar until the midterm elections.
Cap and trade, which was part of energy legislation which passed the House last year, is not expected to be part of the final Senate legislation — if it reaches the floor for a vote.
