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.
Three days into the special legislative session, a nearly $900 million structural deficit continues to confound the New Mexico Legislature. Meanwhile, Richardson, the state’s bigger-than-life chief executive and former presidential candidate, finds himself attacked from both the political right and left.
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.
The Senate voted 29 to 10 Thursday afternoon to pass legislation that would allow a political candidate or a citizen to ask a state court judge to stop alleged political activity during an election until the group responsible discloses who is bankrolling the effort.
Ten New Mexico Democrats sided with Republican Senators amid mounting opposition from religious groups and a confluence of factors that worked against the bill’s passage.
Only Democratic lawmakers at the state Capitol in Santa Fe opposed the bill to give a judge discretion to fine a public official convicted of or pleading guilty to corruption charges.
The state Senate, by a vote of 29-12, just passed a bill (pdf) that would give a court judge the discretion to impose a fine on a public official convicted of corruption.
The legislation, sponsored by Sen. Minority Whip…
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…
