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.
On Tuesday the Senate Finance Committee, on which Senator Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M. sits, will resume debate on the healthcare reform bill written by committee chairman Max Baucus, D-Mont. As CNN notes, two Senators plan to force a vote…
In an interview here earlier today, U.S. Sen. Mary Landrieu reaffirmed her opposition to including a public option in a health care reform bill, but said she thinks the Senate can get 60 votes in support of a bill that will accomplish the president’s goals without a public option.
The Gang of Six met Tuesday to look over a health care reform bill pending in the Senate Finance Committee, and even though the bill does not include a public option, Sen. Jeff Bingaman says he will support…
While national polling shows a majority of Americans prefer the public option, a poll conducted by Research and Polling Inc. for the Albuquerque Journal found that a plurality of registered voters in New Mexico oppose the public option.…
At his 32nd annual Steak Fry fundraiser, U.S. Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, was cheered by an enthusiastic crowd of supporters when he declared that a health care reform bill would pass both houses of Congress “by Christmas,” and that it would include a government-run, not-for-profit health insurance plan.
The chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, Max Baucus, D-Mont., has released the framework for the his committee’s version of a health care reform bill, and it does not include a public option.
Instead, it includes a provision for…
The online news site Salon used U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman as an example of Senate Democrats work on health care reform in an unflattering piece called Why Senate Democrats are giving up so easily.
State Senator Dede Feldman, D-Albuquerque, is one of the more vocal advocates of health care reform in the New Mexico Legislature.
The North Valley lawmaker is currently attending a meeting of the National Conference of State Legislatures in…
A major health care reform bill, something that President Barack Obama championed while on the campaign trail last year, has passed out of the U.S. Senate’s Health Education Labor and Pensions Committee (HELP).
U.S. Senator Jeff Bingaman, a…
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.
The latest fight in the Senate battle on health care is over whether or not to include a so-called “public option” in any health care reform bill. And U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman announced his support for the public option today…
This past week was for health care reform junkies and activists like the first week of April for baseball fanatics — a kind of opening week to the political games, policy debates and maneuvering that are sure to unfold over the summer months.
Democracy for New Mexico covers healthcare reform, a huge topic blowing up the media world recently. Read all about the “trigger” provision within the public option “compromise” proposals and why it must be avoided.
