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.
Acknowledging the Governor’s opinion that their budget fix may not protect the state’s medicaid program from cuts “may very well be correct,” New Mexico legislative leaders delivered a letter to Gov. Bill Richardson today, urging him not to make cuts…
By a 7 to 4 vote, a Senate panel killed legislation that would have altered the way the state collects its corporate income tax.
Called combined reporting, the bill (Senate Bill 8)sponsored by Santa Fe Democrat Peter Wirth would…
A powerful Senate panel just killed the first tax bill before it this afternoon. By a vote of 7 to 4, the Senate Committee on Committees deemed legislation filed by Sen. Dede Feldman, D-Albuquerque, irrelevant to the Legislature’s mission…
The governor’s ruminations were prompted Friday by the New Mexico Senate’s voting voting 24-18 to repeal the death penalty after an hours-long, wide-ranging debate that alternated between dizzying flights of eloquence and illuminating history lessons that reached back through 6,000 years of human history.
Legislation that would repeal capital murder in New Mexico and replace it with life in prison without parole moves to the Senate floor, its next-to-last stop, following Monday afternoon’s 6-5 vote in the Senate Judiciary Committee to approve the bill.
Legislation that would cap — for the first time — the amount that financial contributors could give to New Mexico political candidates and elected officials easily cleared a Senate committee considered by some as wary of such measures.
Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez, D-Belen, said Monday afternoon that the domestic partnerships legislation will go to the Senate floor sometime this week for a vote.
“It won’t be next week,” Sanchez told the Independent.
There’s at least one ethics-reform proposal that isn’t getting any discussion this year. In fact, some legislators, when asked about it, thought it already was part of state law. The proposal: require a campaign contributor to list his or her employer.
A bill that would require public officials convicted of felony corruption to forfeiture their pension benefits cleared the Senate Rules Committee this morning.
The state Senate just recessed for an hour so that a powerful legislative committee can meet to discuss committee assignments.
There is much interest in who is selected as chairs to Senate committees after the Senate Democratic caucus was divided…
