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.
Is it a coincidence that the NM GOP on Wednesday forwarded to reporters a story about how Republican gubernatorial candidate Martinez carries a .45—the same day that Martinez campaign strategists were struggling to brush off the news that a Martinez employee forwarded a joke in which a “New Mexican girl” shoots an Arab and a Mexican with her .45?
A Party spokeswoman says emphatically “yes,” but till, the coincidence made some cringe.
“The question is: Are they meaning to say that she just carries a .45— or are they really meaning to say, on this day, with this news, she also would throw a glass up in the air?” state Sen. Cisco McSorley, D-Albuquerque, said.
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.
New Mexico would eliminate more than 900 jobs and reduce state workers’ salaries by 2 percent to balance the state’s out-of-whack budget, if it followed a budget proposal released Monday by the Legislature’s budget committee.
A Republican state senator charged Friday that the Department of Health had hired more than 90 state employees since Gov. Bill Richardson imposed a state hiring freeze – and she wants to know why. Sen. Sue Wilson Beffort,…
A bill that would require public officials convicted of felony corruption to forfeiture their pension benefits cleared the Senate Rules Committee this morning.
