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.
In out-of-state money, in oil-and-gas giving, in the number of eye-popping contributions, Republican Susana Martinez beat Democratic Lt. Gov. Diane Denish in the battle of dollars and cents. But a comparison of the reports Wednesday showed something else: Republicans from outside of New Mexico care big-time about winning the New Mexico governor’s race.
Massachusetts Senator John Kerry has sent out a fundraising letter on behalf of fellow Democrat Diane Denish. Members of the same party often try to help each other out, but there’s a special significance to this move. Kerry specifically mentions…
Gov. Bill Richardson and U.S. Sen. John Kerry “lobbied fiercely” to get the Obama administration job of envoy to North Korea, but both lost out to former President Jimmy Carter, Foreign Policy magazine reported today.
Carter is in North…
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.,
With health care reform wrapping up — the House will most likely finish the effort tonight– the question becomes what will Congress tackle next. Two popular choices among Congress watchers are financial reform and climate legislation. Senator Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M.,…
Members of the natural gas industry have sent a letter to both New Mexico senators asking that natural gas be added to any clean energy mandate that passes Congress, according to The Hill.
In January, then-President of the New Mexico…
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…
Foremost in the attention of many this week is the special election in New York’s 23rd Congressional District. The race saw a dramatic change in dynamics when Republican Dede Scozzafava pulled out of the race — and endorsed…
Two long-serving senators, Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts and Robert Byrd of West Virginia, reportedly collapsed at the inaugural luncheon earlier today.
MSNBC reported:
Sens. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., and Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., were stricken Tuesday at an inauguration luncheon
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While Gov. Bill Richardson‘s name gets bandied about for an Obama administration post, Aussie Stephen Morris, a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, in Washington, D.C., pooh-poohs anything smacking of “secretary of state.”…
To really understand Ohio, you need a far-reaching anthropological knowledge that few possess. Sometimes, people “get it.” This would most certainly include the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, now engaged in an all-out assault to win the state’s 20 electoral votes.
