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.
The Obama administration today selected a Northern New Mexico water reclamation project as one of a handful of infrastructure public works endeavors to undergo an expedited permit process in the hopes it will lead to faster job growth.
Some of the state’s last stimulus funds will be used to benefit animal welfare, Gov. Bill Richardson announced today.
The Department of Public Safety will get $150,000 to combat illegal cockfighting, dog fighting and animal hoarding. The money will pay…
Gov. Bill Richardson has slated more than $1 million in federal stimulus dollars to a land grant council and six acequia (community irrigation ditch) associations in Mora, Rio Arriba, Santa Fe and Taos counties.
The…
The White House is touting it as “recovery summer”: The economy is adding jobs, the unemployment rate is falling, housing is stabilizing and the $787 billion stimulus is working. But it certainly doesn’t feel that way to America’s young workers, who suffer the worst rates of joblessness of any demographic group. And with July in full swing, their jobs situation is about to get worse.
Socorro will receive a $1.2 million federal stimulus loan and $3.29 million in federal grants to revamp its water system. Despite numerous New Mexico municipalities’ struggles to comply with federal and state drinking water quality standards, Socorro was the only New…
A key claim in the latest ad by Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh isn’t true, according to documents obtained NMPolitics.net. Weh asserted that Denish “spent stimulus money to fly a jet to a parade,” but reporter Heath Haussamen…
Two years after Bernalillo spent at least $4.9 million building new arsenic filtration systems for the Town’s drinking water, lab tests suggest they are not working. The state Environment Department issued a violation letter Tuesday, stating that water from one of the Town’s two active wells exceeds federal and state water standards for arsenic. The violation notice came just a week after the Town council voted to spend another $9.2 million to install the system on its remaining two wells — lest it lose $4 million in federal stimulus funding for the water system improvements.
Governor Richardson said in a press release Friday that 10,00 full and part time jobs are the result of federal stimulus money. In a breakdown of the numbers 7,372 people got full or part time jobs in the last quarter…
A study by the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) finds that the stimulus package helped lift tens of thousands of New Mexicans over the poverty line. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) also helped more…
New Mexico will be getting up to $100 million from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) to help build and run a New Mexico integrated biorefinery project near Columbus, New Mexico. The demonstration-scale facility “will cultivate algae in ponds…
The Senate and the House are back in session and the topic of discussion is mostly on two fronts, health care reform and Afghanistan. However, a new study by the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), showing that the stimulus program has…
Stimulus critics were abuzz flogging Recovery.gov for flaws in its first big data release, though compared with many other government databases, the error rate in the stimulus data isn’t all that bad.
Revenue estimates released this week project that New Mexico’s revenues will come in at around $5 billion for the current 2010 fiscal year, which is $422 million less than was anticipated when the budget was put together, according to a…
With Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez’s criticism of how stimulus money is being allotted across the state, it reminded me of a Web site by the nonprofit journalism folks at Pro Publica which shows how much stimulus money each…
So far, Albuquerque and New Mexico officials in charge of allocating federal stimulus money haven’t had much to do, but that may change soon according to a story in today’s Albuquerque Journal.
Today, Congressman Ben Ray Luján, D-N.M., launched the American Recovery and Reinvestment Project Map — a Google map “which shows where funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is going in New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District.”
Vice President Joe Biden praised the state of New Mexico today for quickly allotting the money received for highway and other transportation projects from the recovery bill passed by Congress and signed by President Obama earlier this year.
According to the Albuquerque Journal, Mayor Martin Chavez isn’t completely happy with the way that the stimulus is being spent in Albuquerque.
The City of Albuquerque has launched a web page to track the recovery money that is coming to New Mexico from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA).
Kate Nash has a cool story in the Santa Fe New Mexican today that includes links to multiple Web sites that people can use to track where the federal stimulus cash is being spent.
