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.
After consolidating three bills into one, the Senate Rules Committee made a few more big changes to a bill designed to reform the State Investment Council.
“Blending these three bill together we finally have true reform,”…
The governor would no longer sit on the state Investment Council if a bill sponsored by Sen. Cisco McSorley, D-Albuquerque, succeeds.
The bill is one of three in the Senate aimed at reforming at a state agency at the…
Sen. Cisco McSorley told supporters of New Mexico’s domestic partnership bill on Monday that the measure is only “1 or 3 votes short” of a possible vote before the full Senate.
The bill is expected to go…
New Mexico state lawmakers wanted to know Thursday why thousands of documents requested by whistleblower Frank Foy and his attorney haven’t been turned over by two agencies he says engaged in corrupt investment practices.
Gov. Bill Richardson is considering cuts to public education to close this year’s $650 million budgetary shortfall, several state lawmakers confirmed early Saturday afternoon. The news represents a change for Richardson, who has stood firm against public school cuts for weeks…
Ten New Mexico Democrats sided with Republican Senators amid mounting opposition from religious groups and a confluence of factors that worked against the bill’s passage.
State Sen. Cisco McSorley, D-Albuquerque, just told me the Senate Judiciary Committee will vote on domestic partnerships this afternoon.
As of last week, the bill’s failure or passage in the Senate Judiciary Committee had come down to one…
Five of the six Democrats on the make-or-break committee appear to support the Domestic Partner Rights and Responsibilities Act. Sen. Bernadette Sanchez, meanwhile, stands in the middle, undecided, and the likely swing vote. She’s being lobbied hard on the bill, which would extend the rights of married couples to same-sex and opposite-sex couples in a committed relationship.
