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.
59 percent of New Mexico voters say the federal budget deficit reduction should not involve cutting Medicaid, according to a new poll commissioned by advocacy groups in the state.
A new Gallup poll finds, on average, Americans believe 51 cents out of every dollar the federal government spends is wasted, a new high since the question was first asked in 1979.
Heather Wilson, Republican candidate for U.S. Senate — and former colleague of Rep. Paul Ryan — continued to sidestep questions about his budget plan Friday in an interview with Politico.
Senate candidate Hector Balderas went on the offensive Friday — but in an email against the two top-tier Republican candidates, not his main opponent, fellow Democrat Martin Heinrich. Balderas said that he would vote against the Paul Ryan, R-Wisc., budget. But with the two Republicans, he said, “We just don’t know.”
A new poll from the Washington Post and ABC News reveals mixed messages from the American public over the country’s budget crisis.
Funding for Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories helped New Mexico bring in more federal dollars per person than all but four other states, federal databases show for fiscal year 2009. Only Alaska, Hawaii, Maryland and Virgina received more money…
This week, Senate Democrats will attempt to push through a jobs bill that has stalled in the chamber for seven weeks. If Congress does not pass the bill, hundreds of thousands will lose their federally extended unemployment insurance. Doctors will take a 21 percent cut in Medicare reimbursement rates, and states will see less money for Medicaid.
The identity of an elderly New Yorker, June Smith, was used for fraudulent Medicare claims in New Mexico, Florida, California and Arizona, the New York Daily News reported Tuesday.
Several of the exams and tests for which the government was billed defied common sense. Smith, a 72-year-old woman, supposedly received up to $50,000 worth of exams, including a pregnancy test, semen analysis and prostate cancer tests. More …
Hundreds of placard-waving Tea Party activists in Albuquerque weren’t sheepish Thursday about sharing ideas on where to trim government fat. Eliminate the federal Department of Education. Reduce foreign aid. Starve the defense budget. Cut back or phase out big domestic spending programs like Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. They all came up as potential cost-savings measures.
The new federal health care reform law may add millions of Americans to the ranks of the insured. Much less unheralded, says a national consumers group, is the law’s attempt to reduce the number of hospital-acquired infections, a problem that has garnered scrutiny over the past decade. The new act, signed into law by President Obama last month, also will require more public reporting of medical errors, such as infections, at hospitals, something that is not yet occurring in New Mexico.
The number of people in U.S. prisons has grown at the slowest pace in nearly a decade, according to figures released Tuesday by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, according to the Washington Post. The study also noted that incarceration…
In an apparent attempt to pacify progressives, the Senate is looking into the possibility of lowering the age of Medicare eligibility from 65 to 55, the Huffington Post is reporting.
In a major victory for the pharmaceutical industry, the Senate Finance Committee on Thursday shot down legislation to provide seniors full coverage through the controversial coverage gap in Medicare’s prescription drug benefit. The proposal, sponsored by Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.), would have closed Medicare’s so-called “doughnut hole,” which forces millions of seniors each year to pay full prescription costs after annual expenses have reached a certain threshold.
The fact is, our government cannot go on spending money at the rate it has been. Politicians of both parties have in the past defended deficit spending because, “We can grow our way out of the deficit.” Oh, really? So what happens when the economy contracts — as it is doing now — instead of expands?
Health care in England and France are considered basic human rights. In the United States, health care is considered a pot of gold for some and the thin edge of the wedge to bankruptcy for many others.
Eclipse Aviation employees who arrived at work today were told they wouldn’t be receiving paychecks for the past two weeks and were handed an 800 number. Federal immigration officials tell the New Mexican that they arrested nine people in late October…
