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.
Any hopes of a climate bill may be on the shoulders of New Mexico’s Sen. Jeff Bingaman, the chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, who is drafting a utility-only climate bill.
Politico noted today that while…
Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., is working on writing a utilities-only energy bill “that would cap greenhouse gas emissions from power plants” according to The New York Times. The Times says such a bill, less ambitious than the cap…
The U.S. Senate will use the framework of Sen. Jeff Bingaman’s, D-N.M., so-called “energy-only” bill instead of the more comprehensive climate change bill written by Sens. John Kerry, D-Mass., and Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y.,
The Senate Armed Services Committee is scheduled today to consider the bill that includes a repeal of “don’t ask don’t tell.” That’s why a coalition of LGBT-rights organizations pushing to secure passage in the committee, and then later this week…
According to The Hill, Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., is not backing off his proposal to require that utilities provide 15 percent of their power from renewable energy sources by 2021. This comes after Sen. Lindsey Graham, R-S.C., released a…
Former Democratic National Committee chair Howard Dean said Monday that it is time to kill the U.S. Senate health care bill and start over — and he used the “r” word. Reconciliation.
The liberal Democrat, who previously served as…
Saturday night, the U.S. Senate voted 60-39 to invoke cloture and begin debate on a health care reform bill. The debate will begin after the Senate gets back to Washington D.C. after Congress’ Thanksgiving recess.
The vote to…
With Senator Joe Lieberman, I-Conn., saying yesterday that he would filibuster any health care bill that he doesn’t agree with, Congress watchers have been thrown for a loop.
And Lieberman says he will not vote for a bill…
Like all freshman senators, New Mexico’s Tom Udall has some mentors. Though he is surely getting advice from New Mexico’s senior senator, Jeff Bingaman, Udall also has two other mentors to help him out. And both are powerful players…
Yesterday we asked how New Mexico’s senior senator would vote on Sen. Joe Lieberman’s fate. It turns out Jeff Bingaman voted along with most of his peers for a partial rebuke of Lieberman — but for Lieberman to keep his…
Independent Sen. Joe Lieberman has kept his position as chairman of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, and the secret ballot was reportedly not even close. What is particularly surprising is that New Mexico Sen.-elect Tom Udall reportedly spoke on behalf…
Senators will gather tomorrow to vote on the fate of U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman. Lieberman was formerly a Democrat but was defeated in the 2006 Democratic Senate primary in Connecticut. He won re-election after deciding to run, and winning,…
