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 Senate will “probably” consider this evening a bill that would open conference committees and other legislative meetings to the public, Majority Leader Michael Sanchez, D-Belen, said today.
For the third straight day, the Senate had on its agenda Tuesday a proposal to open conference committees and other legislative meetings to the public, but Majority Leader Michael Sanchez, D-Belen, never brought the item up for debate and a vote.
The Senate Rules Committee gave a do-pass recommendation this morning to a bill that would open conference committees and other legislative meetings to the public. With a similar bill already on the calendar for today’s Senate floor session, what happens next isn’t clear.
For the second straight day, the Senate had on its agenda a proposal to open conference committees and other legislative meetings to the public, but, as it did on Sunday, the Senate adjourned late Monday evening without considering the bill.
With legislation that would open conference committees and other legislative meetings to the public languishing in the Senate Rules Committee, Sen. Dede Feldman will try a procedural move tomorrow to try to move the proposal though a different committee and to the Senate floor for a vote.
A bill that would open conference committees and other legislative meetings to the public could be voted on by the House on Monday.
A bill that would require government agencies in New Mexico to accept requests for public records via e-mail and fax cleared its first hurdle on Tuesday.
The annual battle in the Senate to open legislative conference committees to the public hasn’t yet begun, but the proposal is making its way through the House.
Sen. Dede Feldman says a vote on a bill that would require disclosure of gifts from pharmaceutical companies to doctors will be a test of the Senate’s receptiveness to some reform bills that would increase transparency.
A bill that would open legislative conference committees to the public cleared its first hurdle in the House on Monday.
State Rep. Joseph Cervantes introduced a bill today that would allow people to register to vote on Election Day in New Mexico.
Under Cervantes’ House Bill 395 (which isn’t yet available online), New Mexico residents who are…
There’s a rosary this evening for George R. Garcia, who died Sunday following a lengthy illness, according to the Las Cruces Sun-News. Garcia, the husband of state Rep. Mary Helen Garcia and uncle of Rep. Joseph Cervantes, was also himself an active politico. When John Edwards visited Mesilla as the Democratic nominee for vice president in 2004, the party chose Garcia to meet Edwards and shake his hand in front of the media as Edwards stepped off an airplane at the Las Cruces International Airport.
The very law Richardson said would help fight corruption when he signed it in 2007 was used to file a lawsuit on behalf of the state alleging that schoolteachers and taxpayers lost $90 million in investment deals made in exchange for contributions to Richardson’s presidential campaign.
