Echoing a blog post from yesterday, Senators Tom Udall, Jeff Bingaman and Rep. Ben Ray Luján, all Democrats, issued a statement today saying that the Department of Homeland Security, DHS, has contingency plans in place in case Congress does not pass the PASS ID legislation. These include extending the [...]
This is an op-ed by guest blogger Diane Wood, Policy Director for the ACLU of New Mexico.
Real ID is dead. Thirty-six states currently do not meet compliance standards set by federal law, 14 of which have passed binding legislation prohibiting participation in Real ID. In all, twenty-four states have enacted [...]
Today, former Republican New Mexico Guv Gary Johnson launched a “special advocacy committee” called the OUR America Initiative. According to the inaugural post on the website’s blog, the goal of the Initiative is “to broaden the parameters of the public policy debate of current topics in [...]
A staffer for Congressman Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., will meet with anti-gay marriage activist Bob King according to the Washington D.C. blog DCist.com. The Washington D.C. city council voted to approve gay marriage earlier this month and King is a part of Stand4Marriage, a conservative Christian group which opposes [...]
Joan Brown, osf, a Franciscan sister and Director of NM Interfaith Power & Light, is blogging from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which is happening Dec. 7-18. She went to Copenhagen with an international delegation of Franciscans. She’s written three reflections so far, including a [...]
Sister Joan Brown, a local resident who is part of a Franciscan delegation to the climate change talks in Copenhagen, was featured in USA Today’s cover story on Monday, December 7. The lengthy article, which included a front-page color photo of Sister Joan at [...]
Photo by Sara Grajeda
The New Mexico Independent, with experts from the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government, on Tuesday night hosted a free seminar on the Inspection of Public Records Act (IPRA) and how to obtain government information. Click the box below [...]
Over at the blog for the Southwest Organizing Project, they say Chavez's legacy is, [...]
He titled a blog post, successful Drudge bait, "The White'" [...]
That was my computer with most of the pictures I have taken (though many of these were backed up), all of my files, [...]
GOP governor candidate Doug Turner will know soon enough whether his decision to unveil TV spots on Thanksgiving Day was a turkey. He says he will do follow-up polling to measure the impact of the commercials unveiled on Thursday on statewide cable and which he [...] This is a guest blog by Bob Hearn, a citizen who resides in Las Cruces, New Mexico.
Health Care Reform, as Congress presents it to us, is incomprehensively complex and non-understandable. If you want to control things, that’s exactly the situation you would want to create. There are hundreds of lobbyists trying mostly [...]
Not that there isn't plenty to be thankful for. New Mexico's eternal gifts--its beauty, culture and climate--continue to delight year after year and generation after generation. But this is a year when more corporeal concerns dominate the thoughts of New Mexicans. Like jobs--and whether theirs will [...] 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.
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Governor Bill Richardson’s Budget Balancing Task Force is meeting in Albuquerque at Expo New Mexico and the New Mexico Independent is on hand to liveblog and webcast the proceedings. Come join us as we see what options the task force will be discussing to bridge the budget gap that [...]
This is a guest blog by Tyler Taylor, M.D., who has a solo, patient-focused medical practice in Los Alamos, New Mexico. The piece was written in response to Sunday's op-ed in the Albuquerque Journal North by Carol Miller.
As a member of Physicians for a [...]
This is a guest blog by Democratic State Rep. Brian Egolf, who represents House District 47 in Santa Fe.
I am running for reelection to the New Mexico State House, and I’m writing to ask for your help. I would be honored to have your [...]
The New Mexico Independent plans on liveblogging and webcasting the Budget Balancing Task Force meeting Thursday, which is set to be held from 1 p.m to 4 p.m. at the Leon Harms Youth Hall at Expo New Mexico.
The task force, appointed by Gov. Bill Richardson, [...]
“I’m shocked to learn that a campaign flack would not tell me the truth,” The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Steve Terrell writes this morning. Can you taste the sarcasm dripping off that statement?
Terrell was writing about the revelation in a new book from Obama strategist David Plouffe that [...]
Update, 2:39pm: Here’s a response to this blog from Gilbert Gallegos, Deputy Chief of Staff to the Governor’s Office:
Nobody is asking lobbyists to “solve New Mexico’s budget woes.” And the Governor is not looking for a consensus or any recommendations from the task force. He wants a thorough analysis of [...]
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