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.
In an act that the chair of the House Energy and Natural Resources committee called “gamesmanship,” all Republican members of the committee left a hearing on oil and gas Monday after a perceived slight to Rep. Don Bratton, R-Hobbs.
The chairman of the committee, Rep. Brian Egolf, D-Santa Fe, scheduled a presentation on the oil and gas industry for this morning. Egolf arranged for Kim Sovig, a Research Associate Professor at the UNM School of Architecture and Planning, and Betsy Siwula Brandt, who has worked in the oil and gas industry for 20 years, to give presentations for the committee.
While one of the presenters was answering a question from Rep. Al Park, D-Albuquerque, Bratton interrupted and asked the background of the two presenters. Egolf said that Bratton did not have the floor and, according to the KUNM Government blog, that he had time to arrange his own expert witnesses.
Bratton left and was followed by the other five Republican members of the committee.
Egolf apologized to the presenters and said the Republicans had been “rude.”
