Officials should lead by example on transparency

We’ve got the better part of a year to build a bigger team of sunshine champs and then we’re going to bring our A game to the 60-day session in 2013. In the meantime, public officials who say they support transparency should lead by example and not wait for new laws to force them to do the right thing. Continue Reading

PRC reforms clear key committee

Efforts to streamline and improve the embattled Public Regulation Commission cleared a major hurdle this morning as the Senate Rules Committee approved two proposed constitutional amendments that would relieve the commission of insurance regulation duties and ask the Legislature to establish qualifications for commissioners. Continue Reading

Monday liveblog from the Roundhouse

The Senate on Monday approved a proposal to require combined reporting. The bill, which would require many out-of-state corporations to pay taxes on in-state earnings, passed with the support of the majority Democrats, but not from Republicans. Read the transcript of our live blog for more details. Continue Reading

Budget kerfluffle is business as usual

VIDEO: The budget was moving through the House at about the usual speed until Monday, when Republicans balked at what had been a tentative deal. Democrats said they were shocked and disappointed that their deal fell through; Republicans were forced to awkwardly backtrack. So what was behind all the sturm und drang? Continue Reading

Committee rejects Nuñez bill, passes substitute

UPDATED: On a 5-4, party-line vote, the House Labor and Human Resources Committee rejected Rep. Andy Nuñez’s bill that would repeal a law that allows undocumented immigrants to obtain driver’s licenses this afternoon, passing instead a committee substitute that would amend the law in an attempt to address its flaws. Click on the headline to read NMPolitics.net’s liveblog archive of the hearing. Continue Reading