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 first two tax increases to reach the floor of the House made it through on Friday, but not before some strong words on both sides. One bill would temporarily raise the gross receipts tax by .5 percent; the other would raise taxes on the state’s highest earners by 1.5 percent. Both bills could bring in $300 million to state coffers.
The House Taxation and Revenue Committee on Tuesday passed a measure that would temporarily raise the gross receipts tax (GRT) by one-half percent. The measure is sponsored by Speaker of the House Ben Lujan, D-Santa Fe. In a straight…
Soft drinks, medical marijuana, even that book you want to buy online could get taxed under various proposals filed this week in the early days of the 2010 legislative session. Meanwhile, buying a pack of cigarettes may get a lot more costly, too. Lawmakers have dropped roughly 280 bills in the opening days of the session–and quite a few of those proposals are tax bills.
The revolution at the New Mexico Capitol on Monday involved a webcam, a computer and a videostream of a legislative committee meeting. It was the Roundhouse’s first webcast. Pretty harmless stuff you’d think. But for some it might as well have been revolutionaries storming the Bastille.
Rep. Edward Sandoval, D-Albuquerque and chairman of the House Taxation and Revenue committee, twice asked Rep. Janice Arnold-Jones, R-Albuquerque, to not broadcast today’s meeting over the Internet. But Arnold-Jones refused.
Sandoval then said that a legislative committee would review…
