Steve Terrell

“I’m shocked to learn that a campaign flack would not tell me the truth,” The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Steve Terrell writes this morning. Can you taste the sarcasm dripping off that statement?
Terrell was writing about the revelation in a new book from Obama strategist David Plouffe that there was, after all, a deal between [...]

The American Medical Association has changed its position on whether marijuana should be classified by the federal government as a dangerous narcotic with no medicinal value.  Short-term trials indicate marijuana does have medicinal value, the AMA says in the executive summary of a new report.  The powerful doctors’ group supports the removal of the drug [...]

While we at the New Mexico Independent are sending tweets on our Twitter account about the state Legislature, we aren’t the only ones. Legislators, media and even the House GOP are sending out updates on the 2009 special session.

Educators and others, including health care advocates, are planning to march on the Capitol in Santa Fe to protest proposed cuts to public education and to Medicaid, the government’s low-income health insurance program. And some would like Michael Moore to join, reports the New Mexican’s political reporter Steve Terrell, who included the organization’s open letter [...]

Santa Fe County Commissioner Harry Montoya is running for State Land Commissioner, according to Santa Fe New Mexican reporter Steve Terrell. Montoya, who ran for the 3rd Congressional District seat last year, joins former Land Commissioner Ray Powell, Jr. and Public Regulation Commissioner Sandy Jones in the race. On the Republican side, Republican Party activist Bob [...]

Steve Terrell of the Santa Fe New Mexican notes that the Milford Daily News called Governor Bill Richardson an “anchor baby,” a derogatory term used to refer to a child, born in the United States to immigrant parents, who is a citizen and can act as an anchor for other family who wish to come [...]

The Wall Street Journal has given the indictment of former Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron and three others a national profile, the Santa Fe New Mexican’s Steve Terrell blogged this afternoon.

Johnny Mango raves today about the University of New Mexico continuing education fall catalog. With summer on its way out, he tells of many a classroom option for those looking for something new as the weather cools. He goes as far to say, “These classes can help make dreams come true.”

How many people will, ultimately, be running for the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor next year?
According to state Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino and Santa Fe County Sheriff Greg Solano, two candidates who have already announced they are in the 2010 race, it will be a crowded field.

If you think Twitter is just a way for American techno geeks to navel gaze, how mistaken you are.
Watching protesters in Tehran use Twitter and other social networking services to tap out messages and share photos of impromptu demonstrations has put that myth to bed, hopefully forever.

Contrary to media reports, a new blog called Val Kilmer – The Real Deal isn’t an official Web site of the potential 2010 New Mexico gubernatorial candidate or affiliated with him in any way.

Unless he opts to seek a lesser office or sit out a few years and then run for governor again in 2014 or beyond — and neither is likely — Gov. Bill Richardson will never run in another state-level race in New Mexico.
So why did his 2006 gubernatorial campaign raise $30,000 last year? And why [...]

“Bob Johnson, thou art avenged!” was what The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Steve Terrell wrote on his blog last week after the Legislature, following years and years of debate, approved a bill that would open conference committees and most other legislative meetings to the public. Not so fast, Gov. Bill Richardson effectively said.

The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Steve Terrell wrote an interesting blog on the history of executions in New Mexico.
This is particularly relevant, of course, because of HB 285. That bill –  legislation that would repeal the death penalty in New Mexico –  is headed to the Senate floor for a vote after clearing the Senate [...]

Mark Bralley, a photographer and blogger who keeps an eye on politics, has a lengthy but insightful posting on his blog — What’s Wrong With This Picture? — in which he dissects the webcasting debate in the New Mexico House in an attempt to get to the bottom of what’s really going on.