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.
The state Health Department and Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) have agreed to jointly administer the Health Policy Commission (HPC), according to a memorandum of understanding released by the Health Department. More …
The New Mexico Health Policy Commission and state Health Department are in negotiations to determine the Commission’s fate, officials at both agencies have told The Independent.
The Commission was created by the legislature in 1991 to provide state…
“Currently insurers in New Mexico can charge women up to 20 percent more than men for individual and small group health insurance plans. This is unacceptable…,” Richardson said Tuesday in a press release announcing that he had signed Senate Bill 148.
The…
Less than a year after the murder of Wichita abortion doctor George Tiller, an Albuquerque doctor has decided to accept patients for late-term abortions.
Dr. Susan Robinson and Dr. Shelley Sella, both of whom worked with Dr. Tiller,…
Lively debate preceded the Senate’s Wednesday vote in favor (23-15) on SB 148, which prohibits insurance companies from using gender as a factor in determining health insurance rates.
The year 2009 began with the swearing in of a new president, an all-new House delegation from New Mexico, and former Rep. Tom Udall’s move to the Senate. It ended with a rare Christmas Eve vote on health care reform.
Here’s an interesting tidbit brought to our attention by our Washington bureau. Adam Kokesh, who is running for Congress as a Republican in the deeply Democratic 3rd Congressional district that includes Santa Fe and Taos, has posted on…
“If the Stupak amendment is in there, I would definitely define it as one of most important life votes in more than a decade,” said Doug Johnson, the legislative director of the National Right to Life Committee.
The New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice today expressed outrage that an amendment included in health care legislation passed by the U.S. House of Representatives on Saturday could mean the loss of abortion coverage for millions of…
On Tuesday an Arizona court found that Maricopa County Sheriff Joseph Arpaio can no longer force women prisoners to pay in advance for transportation and security costs in order to obtain an abortion, according to a press release from the…
Marino Leyba, Jr., who Santa Fe police say shot and killed his pregnant girlfriend and her father in May, is being represented by Gary C. Mitchell of Ruidoso, who has defended 70 death penalty cases and who happens to…
Abortion has become a major issue dividing Democratic leadership from Republicans and conservative “Blue Dog” Democrats as they debate health care reform, and now one Albuquerque group is pushing back. The New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice…
In the wake of a horrific murder in Santa Fe, one Republican state lawmaker says he’ll ask Gov. Bill Richardson to add a controversial proposal — the Unborn Victims of Violence Act — to the agenda for the next legislative session.
I’m just as surprised as Albuquerque Journal reporter Charlie Eisenhood, who blogged this week about his shock in finding out that the Albuquerque Public Schools doesn’t allow the distribution of condoms or other birth control.
Meanwhile, New Mexico has…
The Food and Drug Administration has approved the sale of the emergency contraceptive Plan B to women 17 and older, after a federal court ordered the agency to do so.
Pro-choice advocates in Washington are urging Congress and President Obama to repeal restrictions that prevent federal money from being used to provide abortions for poor women, a quarter of whom are forced to carry their pregnancies to term because they can’t afford an abortion.
The brutal murder of a pregnant Santa Fe teenager has reopened a debate over how to properly punish such crimes. It has also prompted supporters of a “fetal homicide” bill to say they plan to introduce it again in the next session of the New Mexico Legislature.
The family of slain abortion provider Dr. George Tiller announced Tuesday that his Kansas clinic will close permanently. Activists on both sides of the abortion issue expressed regret that the closure was the result of violence, but beyond there…
The man accused of murdering Kansas abortion provider Dr. George Tiller was charged today with one count of first degree murder and two counts of aggravated assault but he will not face the death penalty.
Roeder is not expected…
A story posted on Salon.com yesterday argues that FoxNews host Bill O’Reilly is responsible for pushing an image of a Kansas abortion provider that was so monstrous and exaggerated that it fanned the flames of violent anger among the…
