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The New Mexico Independent going forward

By | 11.16.11

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…

EIB hears more anti-cap-and-trade testimony

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By | 11.10.11

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…

New Mexico’s largest university low in popularity

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By | 11.10.11

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.

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Elected officials mark groundbreaking of Union Pacific project

By | 08.09.11 | 9:12 am

Gov. Susana Martinez, Sens. Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, and Rep. Steve Pearce gathered Monday in Santa Teresa to mark the groundbreaking for a $400 million Union Pacific project near the U.S.-Mexico border. The new 2,200 acre facility will measure 11.5 miles long by one mile wide and “include fueling facilities, crew change buildings, locomotive inspection tracks, an intermodal ramp and a switching yard.”

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Both New Mexico senators vote for debt deal

By | 08.02.11 | 2:46 pm

The U.S. Senate approved Tuesday the debt deal, the Budget Control Act of 2011, by a vote of 74-26, with 45 Democrats and 28 Republicans voting yes, including New Mexico Democratic Sens. Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall.

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Sen. Bingaman ‘weighing retirement’ in 2012

By | 11.19.10 | 9:46 am

Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-NM) is “weighing retirement” for 2012, according to a report from Politico.

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Bingaman: Letting tax cuts on wealthy lapse won’t hurt economy

By | 11.16.10 | 12:33 pm

In a conversation with New Mexico radio reporters yesterday, Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-NM, weighed on the idea that not keeping tax cuts in place for those with incomes over $250,000 would hamper economic recovery. Most economists don’t believe it would, he said.

Bingaman says Congress maybe ‘ought to specify’ contraception access in benefit plans

By | 08.25.09 | 9:06 am

At a town hall meeting about health care reform yesterday, U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman said he thought Congress should consider specifying that contraception be included in future benefit packages.

At the meeting sponsored by New Mexico First, participant Ozawa…

N.M. faces ‘crippling loss’ of power in new Congress

By | 12.10.08 | 3:34 pm

New Mexico will lose decades of experience and seniority in the U.S. House and Senate when the new Congress convenes next month, posing great challenges for the new delegation tasked with protecting the state’s interests in Washington.

Bingaman: No climate bill in 2009

By | 11.13.08 | 8:50 am

Don’t expect action on a federal plan to tackle greenhouse-gas emissions for at least a year, says Sen. Jeff Bingaman, the Silver City Democrat who chairs the Senate Energy Committee.

His statement, issued at a climate conference in Washington, D.C.,…