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 Thursday evening the U.S. House of Representatives voted 220-207 to send the reconciliation “fix” bill to health care reform to President Barack Obama. The vote was made necessary after the Senate parliamentarian ruled some pieces of the bill didn’t…
Yesterday, Senate Democrats successfully defeated all Republican amendments to the reconciliation “fix” bill in a so-called “vote-a-rama” session that lasted until early in the morning in Washington D.C. Then, this afternoon, the Senate passed the reconciliation fix on a 56-43…
About 18,000 New Mexicans who purchase individual Blue Cross/Blue Shield health insurance plans are about to see a 29.5 percent increase in their payments. Another 2,700 individuals will see a 10 percent increase, and “a handful” in a couple of…
While he hasn’t signed on to a letter being circulated in the Senate urging the use of reconciliation to include the public option in a health care bill, Sen. Jeff Bingaman told radio reporters yesterday that the public option…
A spokesman for Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., told The Independent that Udall is on board with a letter that calls for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., to use reconciliation to pass the public option on health care reform.
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…
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.
U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman called access to “decent affordable health care” a ”human right” at a town hall meeting in Albuquerque yesterday
He also said that while he still hopes to craft a bipartisan bill in the Senate, if…
