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 New Mexico Environmental Law Center sued Gov. Susana Martinez Tuesday in New Mexico Supreme Court after Martinez halted a carbon reduction program. NMELC, which filed the suit on behalf of New Energy Economy, petitioned the states’s high court for a writ of mandamus which would compel Martinez and New Mexico Environmental Department Secretary F. David Martin to publish the greenhouse gas regulation in the State Register.
Citing a “crisis of confidence in the impartiality of the judiciary,” former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor has called for reform of election campaigns for state judges, urging more states to adopt systems similar to those in Arizona…
Campaign contributions to state Supreme Court candidates soared from $83 million nationwide in the 1990s to more than $206 million between 2000 and 2009, a new study reports. It’s a concerted push by special interest groups to influence judicial decisionmaking…
The traditional fundraising bulwark for the GOP, the Republican National Committee, is having a bad year, to say the least. This year’s travails have led many conservative donors to believe the RNC is becoming less and less helpful to candidates and less and less relevant to the party itself.
A planned public hearing on Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico‘s controversial health insurance rate hike may be delayed until September.
The company filed a motion July 2 with the state Insurance Division, saying the public hearing and division review of the rate hike should be delayed until the Supreme Court has ruled on the matter, because preparing for the public hearing would be time consuming and the court may toss the PRC’s decision to reverse approval of the hike. More …
Attorney General Gary King petitioned the New Mexico Supreme Court to remove Carol Sloan from the state Public Regulation Commission (PRC), just hours after Sloan was sentenced to supervised probation and a suspended sentence of five years.
Everybody wants to know what Obama’s Supreme Court pick, Solicitor General Elena Kagan, thinks about abortion. And right now at least, everybody is pretty disappointed. That’s because Kagan, who has never served as a judge (despite being nominated by President…
Senator Tom Udall, D-N.M., said Tuesday that he plans to propose a constitutional amendment to reform campaign finance laws following the Supreme Court decision that allows unlimited independent expenditures by corporations, unions and other groups.
Congressman Martin Heinrich blasted the U.S. Supreme Court decision to allow unlimited corporate donations to political campaigns, saying in a statement that the decision “is a victory for corporate fat cats, but it’s lousy for average New Mexicans.”
The U.S. Supreme Court will hear oral arguments today in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a case some say could lead to the overturning of campaign contribution limits on corporations. The decision could have far-reaching implications in federal elections. You…
The fact that Judge Sonia Sotomayor believes that policy is made in the courts troubles strict constructionists. All too many on the left dismiss this legitimate concern as nothing more than thinly disguised racism. Any opposition to Sotomayor is racist by definition. Case closed.
The expansion of a coal-fired power plant in Utah has been blocked because the Environmental Protection Agency’s permit did not adequately take into account carbon dioxide emissions.
The Deseret News, one of Salt Lake City’s major dailies, reports…
