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.
Sen. Tom Udall, along with Sens. Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), introduced a resolution to change the filibuster in the U.S. Senate yesterday. A vote on the rules change was put on hold until the Senate returns from a recess after the Martin Luther King, Jr. holiday.
Sen. Tom Udall continues to advance his cause of changing the Senate rules to reduce the role of the filibuster and the ability of a minority of senators to delay legislation from being voted on — in some cases indefinitely — in the Senate.
As political attention has flowed from Wall Street to immigration, unemployment and myriad other topics, financial reform has fallen off the radar. The regulatory law gave guidelines for fixing the financial sector, but the rule-writing process has fallen to dozens of agencies and government bureaucrats currently hammering out the details. That means the real work of reform is just beginning and the country is only incrementally closer to a safer financial system.
Despite initial hopes in the green movement that the spill would spur a move away from the country’s reliance on oil, the disaster has had the opposite effect. An expansion of offshore drilling was supposed to be one of the key compromises that would bring oil-state Democrats and moderate Republicans on board with a climate bill. Now, with the country’s appetite for offshore rigs vastly diminished, the compromise has collapsed.
Tom Jensen, at the Public Policy Polling blog, theorizes that Sen. Tom Udall might be protected from the negative favorability ratings that some of his freshman Democratic colleagues have suffered from because he previously held statewide office. Udall, before…
According to an article in Roll Call, freshman U.S. Sen. Tom Udall is in the running for the “Golden Gavel.” The golden gavel goes to the senators who log 100 hours presiding over the Senate.
Udall currently ranks…
