To the right, you can see the raw video of former President Bill Clinton eulogizing the "cowboy" [...]
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 [...]
The package, doing actual journalism on the subject, is worth a read
And if you're asking, "What is Pro Publica?" Then here is something from their' [...]
Senator Jeff Bingaman:
I don't have video of Senator Tom Udall's speech, but his remarks as prepared for delivery are below.
"I rise today to celebrate the'" [...]
The second meeting of Governor Bill Richardson’s budget balancing task force happened today.
Not on the list of revenue options under consideration is adding a tax on sugar-sweetened beverages. When New Mexico eliminated its tax on food a few years ago, it also eliminated the tax on those kinds of [...]
Hassan Nemazee, a longtime Democratic moneyman, was arrested last August and later accused of perpetrating a $292 million Ponzi scheme. Nemazee has pleaded not guilty to the bank fraud charges, but “it may be unsettling for New Mexico citizens to now learn that a New York firm that [...]
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 [...]
State District Court Judge Judith Herrera ruled yesterday that the State of New Mexico must pay $72,000 in attorney fees and costs to the Center for Civic Policy and the Southwest Organizing Project, according to a statement released today by the two organizations.
The Court ordered the state to [...]
A report released this week by the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy provides state by state comparisons of how regressive or progressive a state’s tax system is. The analysis of New Mexico is found on pages 78 and 79, and shows that the state has a regressive tax [...]
With another candidate withdrawing his name from consideration, regents at New Mexico State University have three candidates to choose from when they meet today to select the school’s next president.
But, considering that the regents held a closed-door meeting to deliberate on Tuesday and canceled a closed-door meeting scheduled for Wednesday, [...]
Media coverage of University of New Mexico soccer player Elizabeth Lambert’s conduct in a recent game is sexist, two University of New Mexico faculty members say in an Albuquerque Journal opinion piece today.
Had Lambert been male, her conduct would have been seen as natural athletic aggression, examples of which [...]
According to a post by New Mexico Watchdog, money was given to “phantom districts” in New Mexico (and others nationwide) from the recovery package. At least according to recovery.gov, the Web site designed to track recovery funds.
On The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Vice President Joe Biden said [...]
Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Doug Turner has set himself apart from the pack. He offers the most powerful endorsement of any candidate of any party, in support of the Inspection of Public Records Act;New Mexico needs to elect a governor who will strengthen our Inspection of Public [...] 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 [...]
The American Clean Energy and Security (ACES) Act, which passed the House in June, is actually much cheaper [...]
