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.
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.
A poll commissioned by advocates of the legislation zeroes in on two lawmakers viewed as crucial to the legislation’s fate this year — Democratic Sens. Richard Martinez and Bernadette Sanchez. Conducted by one of the state’s most respected pollsters, the poll reveals strong majority support for the bill in both of their districts.
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.
