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 House of Representatives could vote as early as Friday morning to raise $380 million in new revenue to help close next year’s budgetary shortfall. A half-cent hike in the state gross receipts tax and a 1-percent surtax on the state’s wealthiest residents are in the mixture of tax increases and targeted closure of tax deductions and loopholes. House Speaker Ben Lujan, D-Santa Fe, said Thursday afternoon he thinks he has the votes to push through the tax package.
The House Taxation and Revenue Committee on Tuesday passed a measure that would temporarily raise the gross receipts tax (GRT) by one-half percent. The measure is sponsored by Speaker of the House Ben Lujan, D-Santa Fe. In a straight…
On Friday House members recalled former Republican Rep. Eric Youngberg, who died this week.
Youngberg, 42, served 2003 through the end of 2008 in the House. A low-profile lawmaker with a puckish sense of humor, Youngberg never really spent much…
