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.
President Obama will send up to 1,200 National Guard troops to the border and request an additional $500 million in supplemental funding for border security, he told Senate Republicans today.
President Barack Obama leads former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson by a wide margin in a hypothetical presidential matchup, according to a poll from a Democratic polling firm from North Carolina. Obama leads other potential Republican candidates by smaller…
New Mexico U.S. Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, both Democrats, signed onto a letter today pledging to end the process of “secret holds” where any Senator can stop a bill from moving forward without disclosing their names.
In an appearance on MSNBC’s Meet the Press Sunday, Gov. Bill Richardson criticized Arizona’s recently-signed anti-immigration bill, saying, ”This law in Arizona is terrible. What the administration needs to do is challenge it because it’s unconstitutional. Immigration is a federal matter.”…
Visiting loved ones in the hospital when you don’t happen to be immediate family or legally married is about to become easier. President Barack Obama has mandated that any hospital participating in the Medicare or Medicaid programs allow hospital visitation rights to same-sex…
Tomorrow is the deadline to file federal income taxes and taxes are on the minds of many Americans. A recent national poll shows that six-in-ten Americans expect their taxes to go up. Also comes the news of a…
The new federal health care reform law may add millions of Americans to the ranks of the insured. Much less unheralded, says a national consumers group, is the law’s attempt to reduce the number of hospital-acquired infections, a problem that has garnered scrutiny over the past decade. The new act, signed into law by President Obama last month, also will require more public reporting of medical errors, such as infections, at hospitals, something that is not yet occurring in New Mexico.
John Paul Stevens, often described as the leader of the liberal wing of the U.S. Supreme Court., announced today that he will retire this summer. Stevens, who will turn 90 on April 20, has served on the Supreme Court for…
United States President Barack Obama and Russian President Dmitri Medvedev signed a nuclear treaty in Prague today. The New START treaty between the first two nations to have nuclear weapons would bring down the countries’ nuclear arsenals and reinstate…
The White House on Wednesday announced a major open government initiative that includes increased access to information from Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories. The Department of Energy, which is heavily involved with Los Alamos National Labs and Sandia National Labs,…
A man was arrested Wednesday for threatening the life of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the FBI announced. The man was apparently angry about health care reform. Yesterday, a man was arrested for making death threats against…
Representative Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., does not believe that President Barack Obama’s idea to open up some coastal areas to oil and gas drilling is the best energy idea, saying, “Even if offshore drilling is expanded those resources will…
Some of New Mexico’s all-Democratic delegation is behind the proposal to open up some offshore drilling that Republicans have wanted for years even while Republicans say President Barack Obama hasn’t gone far enough. Senator Tom Udall and Representative Harry Teague…
Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., commended Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar for the drilling proposal that would allow offshore drilling along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska. Bingaman is…
The issue that took up over a year of Barack Obama’s time in office is now officially done. Tuesday morning, the president signed the reconciliation “fix” bill that passed Congress last week. The bill also included what Obama…
A Rasmussen poll shows that Lt. Gov. Diane Denish leads each of her Republican challengers by between 9 and 22 percent. And while views on health care reform are mixed, New Mexicans generally have a negative opinion of the tea parties.
The current process of health care reform came to a crescendo this week when both the House and Senate voted for a health care reform package. Though many have concentrated on portions of the bill such as the ban for…
Well, it just wouldn’t feel like Tuesday unless the vice president dropped an F-bomb into an open mic on live TV. Speaking this morning at the health care reform bill signing ceremony, Joe Biden turned to President Barack Obama,…
President Barack Obama signed into law the historic health care reform bill today. The bill passed the House Sunday evening after the Senate passed it on Christmas Eve.
“Today, I’m signing this reform bill into law on behalf of my…
The Congressional Budget Office today released its long awaited score on a health care reform bill that is in front of Congress. The score ended up being a boost for supporters of the bill, as the CBO predicted the…
