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.
Yes it is, according to a weekend story in Politico.
Politico attributes a vote scheduled for tonight in the U.S. Senate on a $26.1 billion aid package for states, including extra Medicaid funding, to a late-breaking push by the White House.
A congressional debate on whether to extend extra federal dollars for Medicaid, the government’s low-income health insurance program, has captivate a majority of states. The legislation would push the deadline for states receiving extra Medicaid funding to June 30, 2011, six months beyond the current deadline of Dec. 31.
If the extra dollars don’t come, New Mexico will be stuck with a $160 million hole in the state budget that started July 1.
New Mexico isn’t alone. Thirty states budgeted the anticipated Medicaid dollars in hopes that Congress would extend the deadline. But so far that hasn’t happened.
