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 deal that extends both the Bush-era tax cuts for all income ranges and unemployment benefits for two years easily passed the Senate today on a 81-19 vote, as expected. Both U.S. Senators from New Mexico voted against the deal because of the tax cuts for Americans making more than $250,000 a year.
The tax cut deal which includes extending tax cuts for Americans making more than $250,000 a year is still going on right now due to inclement weather across the country but it already has more than enough votes to pass. The deal passed the Senate 83-15.
A vote to pass a defense bill failed to pass cloture because of a provision that would have allowed gays to serve openly in the military. Both New Mexico senators, Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, were among the 57 senators who voted for cloture which would have brought the bill to an up-and-down vote.
Sen. Tom Udall discussed his plan for filibuster reform on The Rachel Maddow Show on MSNBC last night. Udall calls his plan to reform the rules using a simple majority on the first day of the 112th Congress the “Constitutional option” and says that it would reveal who “is holding up the show on these particular bills.”
On July 21, the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources unanimously approved a bill to designate part of the Organ Mountains in southern New Mexico as wilderness. It was a routine measure — the committee passes several federal land…
“The principle of ‘network neutrality’ is freedom to access any legal, online content without restrictions from Internet service providers,” Sen. Tom Udall wrote in a Politico opinion piece, expressing his support for net neutrality. Udall also outlined what…
Consumers Union this week announced its support for Sen. Tom Udall’s bill that would require cell phone companies to let customers know—via text message or e-mail—when they’re close to hitting their limit.
According to a recent Federal Communications Commission survey, 30…
A proposed state-of-the-art, 68-bed teaching hospital in Rio Rancho has gotten a vote-of-confidence from the federal government that helps pave the way for its eventual reality, members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation announced Thursday.
The Federal Housing Administration has…
The U.S. Senate on Thursday approved the Small Business Jobs Act, a $42 billion bill aimed helping create jobs through tax breaks and by making it easier for small businesses to get loans through small, community banks.
It also includes contains…
Democratic Rep. Harry Teague, in a close race with former Republican Congressman Steve Pearce, has signaled his support for extending the Bush tax cuts for the highest-earning Americans. Teague this week signed a letter to Speaker of the House Nancy…
The City of Albuquerque is getting a $500,000 grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to turn methane gas from the Cerro Colorado landfill into energy that will power a glass recycling facility, Sen. Tom Udall announced Tuesday.
Some…
Decades of clear-cut logging, heavy livestock grazing and fire suppression efforts have left the Valles Caldera in poor ecological condition, according to a proposed 10-year restoration plan that calls for prescribed burns, forest thinning and stream bank restoration efforts. The board of trustees is now taking public comment on the plan.
U.S. senators Tom Udall and Jeff Bingaman introduced a bill in Congress to create a “Center of Excellence” research program at the University of New Mexico (UNM) for cavernous angioma.
Cavernous angioma is a rare, genetic brain…
Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., and two other Senators introduced a bill designed to “achieve American oil independence” by 2030. According to the U.S. Energy Information Administration, a majority of the oil consumed in the United States comes from…
The United States Senate voted 60-39 to pass a sweeping financial reform bill today, “overhauling the regulation of everything from the biggest banks to consumer financial products to exotic instruments like credit-default swaps to the derivatives used by farmers.”…
Sen. Tom Udall may be coming to a television near you. Udall is now hosting a new TV show that will air on public access and be archived his website.
Uranium mining in Churchrock advanced last week as an appeals court cleared the way for Hydro Resources to start in-situ leaching in Northwest New Mexico. But residents and environmentalists worry that the mining will contaminate water. Because of the ongoing issue of abandoned mines that haven’t been cleaned up and a legacy of illness caused by exposure in the mines, the Navajo Nation banned uranium mining of all types in 2005.
A resolution that would have barred the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from regulating greenhouse gases failed today in the U.S. Senate on a 53-47 vote. Six Democrats voted for the resolution that would have almost certainly forced a veto…
A wilderness area proposed by U.S. Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall could be more open to motor vehicle traffic after the senators decided to make changes to the Organ Mountains –Desert Peaks Wilderness Act that would give Border Patrol…
At the America’s Future Now! conference in Washington, D.C., Sen. Dick Durbin, D-Ill, told the group of progressives that he worries filibuster reform, a proposal touted by New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall, might eliminate a valuable tool.
