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 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…
The New Mexico House of Representatives on Friday voted unanimously to allow video webcasting from the floor and streaming audio from committee meetings as early as next week. And the Legislative Council Service will begin posting lawmakers’ votes on the Web within 24 hours of each vote.
New Mexico Secretary of State Mary Herrera is calling on the Legislature to pony up more money to pay for a first-rate campaign finance reporting system.
In a letter sent July 27 to a prominent state lawmaker, Herrera says…
Last month’s paralyzing shutdown of the Secretary of State’s computer systems and web site has state lawmakers asking how to make New Mexico’s constitutional offices subject to the same IT rules most other state agencies comply with. But the state’s IT chief, Marlin Mackey — who has authority over how most state agencies manage information technology — doesn’t have such control over the state’s constitutional offices, Mackey said.
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…
Rep. Janice Arnold Jones has her rouge live feed up and running for anyone who wants to watch the House Tax and Revenue Committee at the state Capitol. Anyone interested in watching can click here or go to civicplaza.net.
