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.
The Democratic Party of New Mexico, on their “State of the Party” blog is warning of “increasingly hostile and confrontational acts of some members of our society” when it comes to actions at health care town halls across the…
Congressman Ben Ray Luján, the Democrat that represents the 3rd Congressional District, wrote an op-ed in today’s Santa Fe New Mexican pledging his support in general for health care reform.
I told you this would be a “semi-regular” feature (as long as the health care reform debate goes on), and here’s the second installment of the Senate health care reform debate with an emphasis on Jeff Bingaman’s role.
Bingaman…
Last week, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said there would be no vote on the health care reform bill before the Senate goes home for August recess. Now, the same can be said in the House as well, according to…
U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., has been one of the most influential voices in the health care debate as part of the “Gang of Six” senators who were charged with crafting the Senate Finance Committee’s health care reform bill.
The Republican National Committee (RNC) will be spending a million dollars across the country to air radio ads targeting potentially vulnerable Democratic members of Congress on the issue of health care reform — including two in New Mexico.
State Senator Dede Feldman, D-Albuquerque, is one of the more vocal advocates of health care reform in the New Mexico Legislature.
The North Valley lawmaker is currently attending a meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures in…
Though President Barack Obama gave a deadline on when he wanted health care reform legislation to be considered by the Congress, the Senate isn’t going to vote on a reform proposal until after the August recess which begins on August…
New Mexico’s Congressmen from northern and and southern New Mexico signed onto a letter with 18 other freshman Democrats asking U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to amend the way that health care reform will be funded.
A major health care reform bill, something that President Barack Obama championed while on the campaign trail last year, has passed out of the U.S. Senate’s Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP).
U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman, a…
If you thought that coverage of the King of Pop’s death dominated the news landscape over the weekend, then you were right according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
According to Pew, 93 percent of all…
Barack Obama signed a tobacco reform bill today in a ceremony at the White House’s Rose Garden.
Afterward, the President was seen speaking to U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman. About what? No one knows.
The latest fight in the Senate battle on health care is over whether or not to include a so-called “public option” in any health care reform bill. And U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman announced his support for the public option today…
Calling it “a thrill,” state Sen. Dede Feldman announced on her blog Sunday that she will be headed to Washington D.C. to talk about healthcare reform “with HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, Presidential Advisor Valerie Jarrett, along with 30 other…
Barack Obama held a town hall meeting in Green Bay, Wisconsin about health care reform.
Ojo Sarco resident and rural health policy guru Carol Miller — who served on the Clinton Health Care Task Force in the ’90s – wrote an op-ed in the influential Washington D.C. paper Roll Call about health care reform.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman was a part of a group of senators who spoke with President Barack Obama yesterday about healthcare reform. Bingaman is the only Democratic senator to sit on both the Senate Finance Committee and the Health, Education,…
U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico’s senior senator, will be meeting with President Barack Obama today to discuss healthcare, according to a press release from the Democrat’s office.
American Prospect blogger Ezra Klein has a scoop: Every Democratic member of the Senate Finance Committee got some homework. That includes our own senior U.S. senator, Jeff Bingaman who serves on the Senate Finance Committee.
Staunch health-care reform opponent and former U.S. House Majority Leader Dick Armey is now targeting moderate Democrats in the Senate and Blue Dog Democrats in the House to attempt to kill health care reform, according to The Huffington Post.…
