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.
It’s crunch time for a handful of state cabinet secretaries and top aides charged by Gov. Bill Richardson with drafting a road map for how to implement federal health care reform in New Mexico. But even after all the work, the plan – viewed as a guide to help New Mexico get ready for the new federal health care law — will be short on specifics and tall on the hard slogging ahead.
There was a somewhat contentious exchange in the Senate Rules Committee today when Senate President Pro Tem Tim Jennings demanded that a cabinet secretary promise to always tell the Legislature the truth even if it would cost him his job.
A joint memorial making its way through the Legislature requests that the state’s Taxation and Revenue Department create a business tax advisory committee, composed of only business community members. Critics charge that’s unfair since other types of groups do tax policy research and often have the polar opposite perspective.
