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.
By any measure, the 60-day session of the New Mexico Legislature that just ended was the most successful in recent memory for ethics-reform advocates who have been pushing for years to fundamentally change the way state government does business.
Gov. Bill Richardson plans to hold a news conference on Thursday to “take action on several ethics reform bills,” according to a news release from his office.
State Sen. (and blogger) Dede Feldman has had a few days off and, earlier today, reflected upon the legislative session, especially the hectic last day.
“The last night and morning of the 2009 session was true to tradition: underlying…
Though he previously pledged to sign a bill that would open conference committees and many other currently closed legislative meetings to the public, the governor’s office now says Bill Richardson is concerned about “loopholes in the bill” and isn’t certain he’ll sign it.
Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez, D-Belen, says a proposal to open conference committees and other legislative meetings to the public will be the last item the Senate will hear tonight. Interestingly, it’s Sen. Linda Lopez, D-Albuquerque and chair of the Senate Rules Committee, who will present Cervantes’ bill tonight.
Majority Leader Michael Sanchez, D-Belen, said on the Senate floor this afternoon that he plans for a debate tonight on one of the bills that would open conference committees and other legislative meetings to the public.
Sen. Dede Feldman asked to delay a hearing earlier today on a proposal to open conference committees and other legislative meetings to the public because she wants the Senate to consider another bill instead of hers.
Majority Leader Michael Sanchez, D-Belen, just brought up, “as promised,” a bill that would open conference committees and other legislative meetings to the public. Then the bill’s sponsor asked for a short delay.
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee voted this morning to send to the Senate floor a second bill that would open conference committees and other legislative meetings to the public.
After saying earlier today that a vote on whether to open conference committees and other legislative meetings to the public would “probably” come tonight, Majority Leader Michael Sanchez delayed a hearing on the bill again this evening.
The Senate will “probably” consider this evening a bill that would open conference committees and other legislative meetings to the public, Majority Leader Michael Sanchez, D-Belen, said today.
For the third straight day, the Senate had on its agenda Tuesday a proposal to open conference committees and other legislative meetings to the public, but Majority Leader Michael Sanchez, D-Belen, never brought the item up for debate and a vote.
The Senate Rules Committee gave a do-pass recommendation this morning to a bill that would open conference committees and other legislative meetings to the public. With a similar bill already on the calendar for today’s Senate floor session, what happens next isn’t clear.
For the second straight day, the Senate had on its agenda a proposal to open conference committees and other legislative meetings to the public, but, as it did on Sunday, the Senate adjourned late Monday evening without considering the bill.
With legislation that would open conference committees and other legislative meetings to the public languishing in the Senate Rules Committee, Sen. Dede Feldman will try a procedural move tomorrow to try to move the proposal though a different committee and to the Senate floor for a vote.
A bill that would open conference committees and other legislative meetings to the public could be voted on by the House on Monday.
The annual battle in the Senate to open legislative conference committees to the public hasn’t yet begun, but the proposal is making its way through the House.
Sen. Dede Feldman told The Albuquerque Journal she was disappointed that a bill that would have required pharmaceutical companies to disclose gifts to New Mexico doctors failed in the state Senate.
Sen. Dede Feldman says a vote on a bill that would require disclosure of gifts from pharmaceutical companies to doctors will be a test of the Senate’s receptiveness to some reform bills that would increase transparency.
Motion on a number of ethics reform proposals has finally begun in the Senate, and that has reform supporters saying there is reason for optimism despite the committee’s late start on the issue.
