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,”…
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.
Two dozen of the State Personnel Office’s 64 full-time employees have BlackBerrys paid for by taxpayers at a cost of more than $2,200 a month, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports. But the smartphones may become casualties of budget…
The New Mexico Senate Rules Committee voted 3-2 to table a proposal to ban all campaign contributions from contractors that do business with the state.
State Sens. Tim Jennings, Stuart Ingle and Dianna Duran voted to table…
In the end, it wasn’t a bloodletting.
Democrats who had backed Sen. Carlos Cisneros‘ unsuccessful campaign to unseat state Senate President Pro Tem Tim Jennings retained their committee chairmanships.
Some Cisneros backers had worried Tuesday that they might…
A coalition of Democratic and Republican senators elected state Sen. Tim Jennings, D-Roswell, to another term as Senate president pro tem.
Jennings won the seat by a vote of 23 to 19, fending off a challenge from Sen.…
Thousands of New Mexicans’ driving records have more traffic-violation “points” than they should, the state Taxation and Revenue Department admits, because of a reporting system flaw that came to light while officials were looking into the traffic records of…
