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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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Pew: 15 percent of Americans say America has the best health care in the world

By | 10.14.09 | 1:11 pm

Do Americans think that they have the best health care in the world? According to a new poll by the Pew Research Center… not really. The poll finds that just 15 percent of those polled say America has the…

More anti-reform health care ads coming to NM

By | 10.14.09 | 11:11 am

More television ads by health insurance industry groups opposing health care reform being debated in Congress are airing in New Mexico, according to George Stephanopoulos. The ads, targeting seniors on Medicare Advantage, are being aired by American Health Insurance…

Finance committee passes health care reform bill

By | 10.14.09 | 6:00 am

The final health care reform bill passed Tuesday in the Senate Finance Committee with a 14-9 vote. Senator Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., voted for the bill.

Insurance industry study of health care reform bill blasted by critics

By | 10.12.09 | 12:04 pm

A health insurance industry-funded study of the Senate Finance Committee version of the health insurance bill, showing that health care costs would increase, is drawing fierce criticism from Democrats in the Senate Finance Committee as well as from the…