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I’m sure you have noticed that commentaries like this one have been vanishing from the New Mexico Independent. I don’t speak for management but I have asked “Why?” and in this, my last essay here, I want to pass along what I’ve learned.First, The Independent isn’t doing away with opinion, just ch...
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Throngs of students in California protested hikes to fees they must pay. Photo by James Buck, Creative Commons LAS VEGAS, Nev. — With impending service cuts, taxes sure to increase and a cash-short state road fund, life in New Mexico might seem, well, not so enchanting.But it turns out pain is re...
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Richard Berry speaks with NMI and other press on election night. So far, two of mayor-elect Richard Berry’s appointees will be double-dipping. Both Lou Hoffman and Tito Madrid currently receive government pensions. Police Chief Ray Shultz qualifies for a pension but will not be taking it wh...
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The first television ad of the 2010 gubernatorial race is on the air today, and it comes from Republican Doug Turner.Here’s the 60-second ad:There are actually three similar ads. In addition to the 60-second spot that began running on television today, there’s another version shortened to 30 seco...
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The Courts, Corrections and Justice Committee unanimously approved a proposed bill that would create a state ethics commission at a meeting this week. The legislation will be introduced during January’s legislative session.Committee co-chairs Sen. Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe, and Rep. Al Park, ...
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New Mexico’s unemployment rate rose from 7.7 percent in September to 7.9 percent in October, according to a monthly state labor report released Wednesday. The unemployment rate in the state a year ago was 4.5 percent; job growth over the past year was negative 3.3 percent.In other words, the econ...
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Minutes after a houseboat piloted by Gov. Bill Richardson’s chief of staff Brian Condit had crashed into another boat Sept. 5, a woman called 911 to report: “The people who are driving it are drunk.”So writes Tom Cole in the Albuquerque Journal today, pushing the story about the...
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Mikey Weinstein, founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation and self-described “leader of the national movement to restore the obliterated wall separating church and state” in the military, said he had received three phone calls about the appearance.UNM Peace Studies instruc...
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Some states, struggling to balance their budgets, are selling or leasing public property, including state office buildings, prisons and major toll ways, and Stateline.org has a story that examines the pros and cons of such decisions. Texas Gov. Rick Perry thinks his state has a better handle on w...
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In response to questions supplied by three Albuquerque city councilors, mayor-elect Richard Berry’s choice for Chief Administrative Officer, David Campbell, has submitted a nine-page missive to all city councilors. The questions by Councilor Brad Winter and two councilor-elects, Dan Lewis and Mic...
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Lt. Gov. Denish’s spokeswoman Sam Thompson is the seventh in seven years to resign from the position, reports the Santa Fe New Mexican. Thompson cited stress as the reason for her resignation and had “nothing but good words for Denish.”The Santa Fe Reporter writes that “Ca...
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State Auditor Hector Balderas plans to push legislation in January that would make it a crime to intentionally hinder an audit and would suspend state appropriations to government agencies that don’t complete required annual audits.The auditor announced on Tuesday that he plans two bills in the l...
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Photo by David MasonIn a preview of potential cost-cutting measures to come, the state of New Mexico has stopped accepting individuals into a program that helps uninsured New Mexicans pay for health coverage.The State Coverage Insurance program (SCI) helps nearly 50,000 low-income individuals and...
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“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 rule...
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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...
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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: ...
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According to the Project for Excellence in Journalism, former Alaska Governor and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin was the third-most discussed news story of the week from November 16-22, trailing only health care and the economy. The “uproar created by a recommendation th...
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Lou Hoffman with mayoral candidate Richard Romero at a press conference in May. Photo by Marjorie Childress.Former City Treasurer Lou Hoffman was a vocal supporter of Richard Romero during Albuquerque’s mayoral campaign, but he’ll be the city’s new Director of Finance and Administration whe...
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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 Se...
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A new iPhone app allows users to shake the bobbly-jeebus out of their Congressional representatives. “Bobble Rep” features full contact information, as well as caricatures of all 540 members of Congress; when you shake the phone, their heads bounce…not quite like a real bobblehe...
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The Freedom from Religion Foundation is posting 10 new billboards in Albuquerque, reports KRQE. The boards highlight the importance of science and the separation of Church and State.The Taos News reports on the local school district’s bond construction and a $675,000 extension approved for ...
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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 ...
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“Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself.”I quote Mark Twain for the laugh, yes, but also as a reminder that American dislike of government is deeply ingrained in our national character.So when NMI readers rant against government, as they often do...
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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 Peter St. Cyr for NMPolitics.net, Cravens says “CO2, I didn’t think, is a harmful thing,” Cravens said. “I thought that&#...
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Governor Bill Richardson echoed concerns made by sportsmen today about a land swap in the Whites Peak area. The Stanley Ranch is expected to get the land by exchanging 3,300 acres of its land for the 7,000 acres the State Land Office currently holds in the Whites Peak area.In a five-paragraph sta...
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Gov. Bill Richardson’s administration is proposing to overhaul Medicaid, the government’s low-income health insurance program, to cope with a projected budget shortfall of $300 million next year, the Associated Press is reporting.Human Services Department officials told lawmakers on T...
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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 Indi...
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New Mexico State University’s new president – the school’s 25th – is the first woman to hold the job, at least on a permanent basis.Waded Cruzado held the job on an interim basis for after Michael Martin left the university last year.The Board of Regents introduced new President Barbara Couture ...
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Stimulus critics were abuzz this week flogging the federal Web site Recovery.gov for flaws in its first big data release. Problems ranged from confusing variation and gaps in job numbers to mistakes that put projects in nonexistent congressional districts to spending that never made it into the d...
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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 Nemazee ...
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The second meeting of Governor Bill Richardson’s budget balancing task force is going on right now.But 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 tho...
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