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.
Outgoing governor Bill Richardson may be heading to North Korea to help head off hostilities between North and South Korea. Richardson has been to North Korea multiple times and was a United States ambassador to the United Nations under Bill Clinton.
Governor-elect Susana Martinez and the outgoing administration Gov. Bill Richardson swapped accusatory statements Thursday over how bad New Mexico’s budget woes are.
Before it was all over Martinez was accusing the Richardson administration of playing “financial shell games”…
A sportsmen’s group is accusing Leo Sims, a former of the State Game Commissioner, of abusing his position and connections to have 61 bighorn sheep relocated to state land near his family’s ranch and then arranging for a special lease…
Are the Richardson and Martinez administrations already shooting death rays at each other, and so soon after all the smiles Tuesday?
Heather Wilson, Governor-elect Susana Martinez‘s transition guru, released a letter yesterday in which she called out
New Mexico state Agriculture Secretary Dr. Miley Gonzalez has announced that he will be stepping down from the cabinet-level position effect December 31, 2010. Gonzalez has served in the position for nearly eight years, according to Governor Bill Richardson’s office.…
Outgoing Gov. Bill Richardson met with Governor-elect Susana Martinez yesterday at the State Capitol, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports.
The relaxed, friendly mood described by the paper offers a striking contrast to the white-hot rhetoric that defined this year’s…
Republican Gov.-elect Susana Martinez promised repeatedly during this year’s election to try to repeal a law allowing illegal immigrants to get New Mexico drivers licenses and to revoke thousands of already-issued documents. But interviews with state lawmakers this week make clear that undoing the law isn’t a sure thing when the New Mexico Legislature convenes in Santa Fe in January for one of the toughest sessions in recent memory.
This week Gov. Bill Richardson spoke to The Independent’s election-night panel on KNME about the campaign between Susana Martinez and Diane Denish, and about his record.
Governor Bill Richardson wants President Barack Obama to designate Otero Mesa a national monument to help protect the area.
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 …
A new poll released today by Rasmussen Reports shows that Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez leads Democratic gubernatorial candidate Diane Denish 52 percent to 43 percent among likely voters.
Republican Susana Martinez‘s new ad criticizing Democrat Diane Denish for having a role in Advent Solar’s shipment of taxpayer-funded equipment to China doesn’t square with the facts, the Albuquerque Journal reports.
Gov. Bill Richardson, the man Susana…
President Barack Obama continues to have decent approval ratings while Gov. Bill Richardson’s approval ratings continue to be, well, horrible. That’s according to the latest Rasmussen Reports poll.
Nearly $2.5 million in federal stimulus money will go to boost children’s programs facing budget cuts, Gov. Bill Richardson announced today.
Most of the new money — $2 million – will help thousands of children stay in childcare services administered by the New Mexico Children, Youth & Families Department for a couple of more months, according to a news release Richardson’s office issued Wednesday.
But Voices for Children New Mexico, while applauding Richardson’s decision, said his action ”amounts to using an aspirin when what’s needed is a transfusion.” More …
Republican Jon Barela, vying to unseat Freshman Democratic Rep. Martin Heinrich, has often said that government spending isn’t a solution to stimulating the economy and that if elected he’d end “wasteful government spending.” In yesterday’s Albuquerque Journal, he was quoted saying it’s risk-takers that lead to economic growth, not government incentives. Yet Barela’s own company—Cerelink—has benefited significantly from taxpayer cash assistance, through New Mexico’s film tax rebate program and from high speed computing infrastructure owned by the public.
For four years Gov. Bill Richardson and state lawmakers have wrestled over how to set up a state ethics commission, who would sit on it and who would appoint them. That an agreement has proved elusive is an understatement; the concept has proved deeply unpopular at the Capitol.
Democrat Diane Denish says she’ll appoint an independent ethics commission “on day one.” But Republican Susana Martinez says an ethics commission would amount to nothing more than window dressing.
A powerful state senator lashed out against the corrections secretary this week as lawmakers eyed $18 million in penalties Williams decided not to levy against private prison companies, including his former employer. Williams has said his decision was based on the good job the two companies had done operating four facilities.
This year’s annual gathering of Mexican and U.S. border state governors seemed star crossed from the start.
Scheduled for Phoenix this year, Arizona cancelled hosting the event after its toughest-in-the-nation anti-immigration law stirred protests and controversy. So New Mexico stepped…
First-term Democratic Secretary of State Mary Herrera is giving some New Mexico Democrats heartburn as the Nov. 2 election election approaches. Whether Democrats like it or not, the embattled Herrera is on the ballot. The deadline for replacing a candidate on the ballot passed on Sept. 7.
The state appears to have been within its rights last year to repeatedly penalize two private prison operators for letting their vacancy rates hover above a 10 percent trigger in their contracts, state records show.
By contract New Mexico can…
