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.
Hundreds of people turned a cavernous hearing room into cramped quarters Thursday to hear how more than 1,500 brick-and-mortar projects wound up on a 60-some-odd page list of projects targeted to lose state money. The bill could become the linchpin to the 30-day session. But if the large crowd of real people and dogged questioning by state lawmakers were any indicators, the legislation isn’t winning any popularity contests.
A lawsuit filed 22 years ago is still costing New Mexico money and one Senator wants to cut the cash. Sen. Rod Adair threw out the word ‘scam’ as he described the millions of dollars the state has paid in…
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.
Those were the words state Sen. Rod Adair, R-Roswell, uttered moments after the New Mexico Senate defeated his motion to amend legislation to repeal the death penalty.
His amendment would have left capital punishment in state law as…
The Senate voted on Thursday 40-1 to pass legislation that caps the amount of money contributors could give to political candidates and elected officials.
The budget bill scrapped $94 million for projects like domestic violence shelters and pre-K classes, but largely spared an equestrian center backed by Gov. Richardson. The vote led one Senator to declare, “Much of what we do in the Senate is indefensible.”
