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.
New Mexico Sen. Jeff Bingaman donated $2,000 to help the Democratic candidate in a Massachusetts Senate special election to be held on January 19. The special election to fill the seat of the Senator Ted Kennedy after his…
Senator Jeff Bingaman and former Sen. Pete Domenici are among the “some 92 past and present Senators” who will likely attend the funeral of Sen. Ted Kennedy, Roll Call reports.
On the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, New York Times columnist David Brooks said that Kennedy considered running for Senate in New Mexico but was instead told by his dad, Joseph Kennedy Sr., to stay in Massachusetts.
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 U.S. House passed the final version of the economic stimulus bill today with no Republican support. The bill now heads to the Senate for a vote, which is expected tonight.
The U.S. Senate passed the stimulus bill a day after voting to invoke cloture. This time, the vote was 61-37, with Sen. Judd Gregg, R-N.H., not voting. Minnesota got only one vote, as former Sen. Norm Coleman’s lawsuit…
Two long-serving senators, Ted Kennedy of Massachusetts and Robert Byrd of West Virginia, reportedly collapsed at the inaugural luncheon earlier today.
MSNBC reported:
Sens. Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., and Edward M. Kennedy, D-Mass., were stricken Tuesday at an inauguration luncheon
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U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici was packing his bags for New Mexico this morning, while still fielding calls from House leaders requesting help to persuade skeptics of the Senate’s economic bailout package. “They’re still calling around, so it makes me wonder,” Domenici said of House leaders in an interview with the New Mexico Independent today. “I thought they had it taken care of.”
When the U.S. Senate votes this evening on a $700 billion bailout plan aimed at boosting the struggling economy, it will also consider mental health parity legislation that Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., and others have pushed for years.
