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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.

Posts Tagged Gang of Six

‘Gang of Six’ Senate version of health care reform bill doesn’t include public option

By | 09.08.09 | 4:57 pm

The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, D-Mont., has released the framework for the his committee’s version of a health care reform bill, and it does not include a public option.

Instead, it includes a provision for…

Making sense of N.M. ‘gang of six’ senator, Jeff Bingaman

By | 09.06.09 | 1:11 pm

National Public Radio is currently profiling the members of the “Gang of Six” — the bipartisan group of U.S. senators trying to hammer out a compromise on health-care reform. I was on NPR on Saturday morning talking about Democrat