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When the House Judiciary Committee gave a do-pass recommendation this weekend to a bill that would create a publicly accessible database of financial information from government agencies in New Mexico, it took two steps forward and one step back. Continue Reading
U.S. Sens. Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, D-N.M., will be in Las Cruces today to hold an official Senate hearing on their proposal to protect more than 300,000 acres of land in Doña Ana County. Continue Reading
Senate Majority Leader Michael Sanchez cut short a Sunday hearing on a resolution that would expand webcasting from the Senate floor, but Sanchez says the resolution isn’t dead, regardless of what others claim. Continue Reading
The majority of those who voted in last week’s non-scientific poll on this site said they approve of the job Mary Jane Garcia is doing as Senate majority whip. Continue Reading
Lt. Gov. Diane Denish wants the proposed sunshine portal to include the names of state employees along with their titles and salaries. But she hopes the legislation, which would create an online database of state government financial information, is approved regardless of whether it requires that names be included. Continue Reading
The House Judiciary Committee gave a do-pass recommendation earlier today to a bill that would create a publicly accessible database of financial information from government agencies in New Mexico, but not before stripping a provision that would have included employees’ names in the database. Continue Reading
The House Judiciary Committee will consider a bill that would create a publicly accessible database of financial information from government agencies in New Mexico on Saturday. Continue Reading
When will a bill that would create a publicly accessible database of financial information from government agencies in New Mexico get its first hearing in a House committee? It’s not clear. Continue Reading
The Senate Rules Committee gave a do-pass recommendation Thursday evening to a proposal to create a state ethics commission, but the bill must pass two more committees before it gets a chance to be considered on the Senate floor. Continue Reading
The Senate Rules Committee tabled a bill earlier today that would have banned people who have contracts with the State Land Office from giving campaign contributions to the land commissioner or candidates for that office. Continue Reading
The Senate Rules Committee gave its approval today to legislation that would expand the number of cameras used in webcasting from the Senate floor. Continue Reading
State Rep. Dianne Hamilton recently wrote in a guest column published on this site that two pending same-day voter registration bills would allow people to register without providing some form of photo ID or another document such as a utility bill. Turns out that isn’t true at all. Continue Reading
With the proposal to create a state ethics commission under consideration in the Senate Rules Committee, activists lobbying for the bill say they’d like to see a better balance between confidentiality and the public’s right to know than would be created by some of the bills under consideration.
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State Rep. Joseph Cervantes’ Whistleblower Protection Act easily passed the House of Representatives today. Continue Reading
A number of sticking points still remain in the debate over the creation of a state ethics commission, including whether the body’s work should be confidential and the makeup of the commission itself. Continue Reading