The details change, but the story never does.
The latest Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) brouhaha unfolded yesterday, when the New Mexico Environment Department slammed the lab with a hefty $960,000 penalty for failing to properly monitor radioactive pollutants in nearby watersheds. This time, it’s particularly [...]
New Energy Dept. video on the impact of smart grid
U.S. Energy Secretary Steven Chu released a statement today announcing that the Department of Energy is awarding more than $6.5 million for 2 projects in New Mexico to demonstrate advanced Smart Grid technologies and integrated systems that will help build [...]
“One of Our 50 is Missing” is a popular and long-running feature in New Mexico Magazine. It features stories from New Mexicans who have mistakenly been identified as being from a country that isn’t the United States.
Now, this situation may be getting a little worse with new rules with [...]
Today, New Mexico Auditor Hector Balderas announced at the interim committee on Courts, Corrections, and Justice that he would introduce two bills this upcoming legislative session. The first bill would amend the Audit Act to make it unlawful to make a false, misleading or [...]
Exciting news from Keegan King, who many of us know from his previous involvement with various campaigns, the League of Young Voters and New Mexico Youth Organized. Last week, he officially announced the launch of Atsaya Strategies, based in Albuquerque.
Two projects in New Mexico won federal ’smart grid’ stimulus money today, the U.S. Department of Energy announced.
But it’s difficult to tell how much of the money will actually stay in New Mexico. More than $4.7 million of $6.5 million awarded to projects in New Mexico according to the [...]
The New Mexico Environment Department has fined Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Dept. of Energy nearly $1 million for failing to monitor groundwater in a waste dump area, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports. About this, the Labs’ second fine, one Environmental Dept. official states: “I am extremely [...]
A debate has erupted in Maryland over higher taxes levied against the state’s wealthiest residents, according to Stateline.org. It’s of interest here in New Mexico because raising income tax rates on the state’s wealthiest residents will be a major issue in the coming January legislative session in Santa Fe [...]
On Friday, Rep. Ben Ray Luján released a statement announcing two grants for Early Head Start programs in New Mexico’s Third District. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act awarded $2,069,138 to Presbyterian Medical Services, which operates statewide, and $245,202 to Eastern [...]
SANTA FE -- Herewith are some random thoughts that crossed my mind while floating on the Amazon last week.
When the University of New Mexico hired football coach Mike Locksley, it obviously wanted to hit the big time with more wins and national recognition it never has received.
That [...]
Last week, Politifact looked at the claim by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, that the Senate version of health care reform is longer than War and Peace. The claim was “barely true,” found Politifact, a Pulitzer-prize winning fact-checking Web site from the St. Petersburg Times.
New Mexico Sen. Tom Udall also thinks [...]
From the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance: For the first time in southern New Mexico’s history, a conference is being held focused solely on the economic values of creating jobs from our protected public lands. “Wilderness Economics” is a joint collaboration between the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance, [...]
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius today announced the release of a new report highlighting the benefits of health insurance reform for New Mexico. Click for a copy of Health Insurance Reform and New Mexico: The Case for Change.
“Families, seniors and businesses are all suffering under the health care status quo,” [...]
La Politica New Mexico posts, “The Funeral: Microcosm of the Bruce King Legacy.” This blogger gives a sense of the event, including those in attendance, a review of King’s work in the state, and his relationships with both the political class and the Average Joe citizens of New Mexico.
Next, [...]
Rep. Brian Egolf
Featured on the front page: the Colón family
Brian Colón, who's running to be the Democratic candidate for Lieutenant Governor in New Mexico, today launched his new campaign website at [www.electcolon.com]. He previously had just a bare-bones page at that URL, primarily for fundraising. Now that' [...]
Bruce King, a three-term Governor of New Mexico,
Ray Powell talks about the land swap practices of the current Land Commissioner at his campaign kickoff last weekend
Updates: Governor Bill Richardson issued a statement criticizing the land deal. Also, Alexa at SFReeper has more on the press conference and proposed land swap.
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New Mexico Land Commissioner Pat [...]
New Mexico State Sen. Kent Cravens announced earlier this week that he is running for lieutenant governor. In a video of Craven’s announcement by reporter Peter St. Cyr, Cravens says “CO2, I didn’t think, is a harmful thing,” Cravens said. “I thought that’s what plants need. I don’t [...]
So you’re looking for some information that can only be found the public records of a government agency or office–but when you request those records, you hit a brick wall. What do you do? The New Mexico Independent is teaming up with the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government [...]
Here’s something New Mexico state officials can back up with experience: predicting revenues in this recession are incredibly difficult, says Stateline.org. Indiana hasn’t produced an accurate monthly tax revenue estimate in over a year. The state has never been so wrong, says an Indiana University professor who has worked [...]
This is a post by contributing writer, Stephen Jones, who is a progressive political activist and a resident of Las Cruces, New Mexico.
I admit when I first arrived in New Mexico the romantic notion of a “Citizen Legislature” seemed quite attractive to me, particularly having spent so much time over [...]
Yesterday, Representatives Martin Heinrich, Ben Ray Luján and Harry Teague remembered New Mexico Governor Bruce King in speeches on the House floor. Governor King, a former three term governor, passed away on November 13, 2009 at the age of 85.
To read Rep Heinrich’s remarks, click here. To read Rep Luján’s [...]
