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.
Opposition to health care reform has sharply declined in recent weeks, according to a new survey from polling company Rasmussen Reports.
Both Texas and Oklahoma are considering limiting access to RU 486 — a pill that is used to induce early labor and end a pregnancy.
Recently proposed federal and state family-planning spending cuts would disproportionately hinder low-income Latinas’ access to reproductive care, said several women’s reproductive care
Gov. Susana Martinez signed legislation Monday that will strengthen regulatory power by the state on health insurance premium increases. The legislation is in response to large increases requested last year by Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico that were recently affirmed by the New Mexico Superintendent of Insurance.
A new measure, signed into law by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer Tuesday, allows the biological father of a fetus — or the mother’s parents, if the mother is underage — to press charges against the person who administers the procedure if it was sought because of the fetus’ race or sex.
The national group (with Texas roots) backing efforts to replace federal health care programs with interstate “health care compacts” is the newest sponsor of the “Daily Update” from polling firm Rasmussen Reports — with Monday’s email containing survey results critical of federal policies and ‘Obamacare.’
A bill to repeal New Mexico’s medical marijuana bill will not receive a vote this year as the sponsor of the bill has reportedly pulled the legislation.
Gov. Susana Martinez is not a fan of health care exchanges, but she floated the possibility of health care block grants as a way to reform health care in the state, according to a report by the KUNM Government Project Tuesday. Martinez had been in Washington, D.C., to attend a gathering of governors which included a meeting with President Barack Obama.
A bill put forward by a freshman state legislator would repeal New Mexico’s medical marijuana program. A spokesman for Gov. Susana Martinez said she would sign the bill if it came across her desk, according to the Associated Press.
The House voted Friday to block federal funding to Planned Parenthood, passing 240 to 185. The amendment has been added to the Continuing Resolution (H.R. 1) to fund the federal government through September. If the resolution goes into law, the 95-year-old health care provider will lose funding from the federal government, all of which goes to family planning and reproductive services under Title X, and none of which goes to funding abortions.
Citing a need for citywide regulations, Farmington city councilors instituted a moratorium on providing new permits for medical marijuana producers. The city councilors voted to institute the moratorium by a 3-1 vote at Tuesday night’s meeting.
Governor-elect Susana Martinez is expected join 14 other newly elected Republican governors for a meeting with incoming Speaker of the House John Boehner, R-Ohio. The main topic of discussion: Repealing health care reform
The Food and Drug Administration under President Bush valued politics over science, a District Court said last year in ordering the agency to approve the morning-after pill for women 17 and older. The court also ordered the FDA to reconsider…
Governor-elect Susana Martinez is altering how she talks about education and Medicaid, two programs she has repeatedly said would be protected from cuts, Heath Haussamen at NMPolitics.net reports.
Four local residents who contributed big to Martinez’s gubernatorial campaign were named to committees charged with identifying cabinet secretary candidates, according to the Farmington Daily-Times.
Also Martinez will make the final decision on whether the state of New Mexico proceeds with a land sale for a new “supercomplex” government office building south of Santa Fe, the New Mexican reports.
Alcohol is banned from the newly refurbished Pit and University of New Mexico’s stadium it appears, according to the Albuquerque Journal.
Governor-elect Susana Martinez announced today that former state Senator Steve Komadina will chair the search committee for cabinet positions in the Health and Human Services Department and the Children, Youth and Families Department. Komadina, an obstetrician and gynecologist, was a strong…
Between Aug. 1 and Nov. 1, a high-risk pool set up under the nation’s new federal health care law for hard-to-insure individuals has added 133 New Mexicans to its rolls, state officials said Monday.
That’s a better rate than neighboring states like Texas and Arizona, a government fact sheet shows.
The numbers of residents enrolled in the newly created federal high-risk pool in New Mexico comes at a time when some are questioning how well the programs are working across the nation as a stopgap measure to help hard-to-insure individuals. More …
Republican congressional leaders made noise Wednesday about targeting the nation’s new federal health care law after winning control of the U.S. House of Representatives and adding a few more Republicans to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, the Washington Post reports.
It’s no secret that the GOP made repealing the law one of the battle cries of the 2010 midterm congressional elections, a position that helped fueled what the Post called the largest Republican sweep in nearly half a century.
But the GOP has few easy paths to repealing the health care law, the Associated Press writes in an analysis published earlier this morning. More …
We thought it was just New Mexico. But it’s also Illinois, California, Nevada.
New Mexico’s next governor faces several challenges once she takes office, but none is bigger than the state budget. But with one day to go in a negative gubernatorial election neither Republican Susana Martinez nor Democrat Diane Denish has presented exactly what can be called a comprehensive, detailed plan to address the challenge. Instead they’ve made vague promises: no raising taxes during the first year, no cuts to K-12 education or Medicaid, programs that represent more than half the state budget.
Turns out, New Mexico isn’t unique. Candidates running for governor in several states, including those mentioned above, are adopting similar strategies, according to the Associated Press. More …
Erin Armstrong, the young woman who lobbied state lawmakers tirelessly for New Mexico’s medical marijuana law (which bears her name), today told Steve Terrell of the Santa Fe New Mexican that Susana Martinez’s desire to repeal the law represents an…
National Health, Aetna, John Alden, and Principal all have told the state’s Division of Insurance that they will no longer write individual or small group plans in New Mexico, according to a Public Regulation Commission spokesman.
Some companies discontinuing…
