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Calling himself a “likely” candidate for governor, Republican Allen Weh announced in a news release that he has hired three new staffers and plans to add two more in the coming days. Continue Reading
State government spending has grown about 40 percent in the last six years. That wasn’t sustainable, and now we have the opportunity and challenge to make government efficient and get the government we need and can afford. Continue Reading
State Rep. Joseph Cervantes, D-Las Cruces and others will hold a summit next month to educate people about how proposed clean-energy legislation will affect agriculture in New Mexico. Continue Reading
“At the PRC and elsewhere, we are reaping what we sowed,” the Albuquerque Journal’s Thomas J. Cole writes in an article published today. Continue Reading
UPDATED: Many of New Mexico’s political leaders were quick to comment today on the death of longtime U.S. Sen. Edward M. “Ted” Kennedy. Here are some of their statements. Continue Reading
State Rep. Jose Campos, D-Santa Rosa, wants you to know he’s still running for lieutenant governor. There’s confusion because a different Jose Campos is a co-host of an upcoming fundraiser for another candidate. Continue Reading
The Constitution of the United States proves that out of many different peoples, interests and desires, one cohesive, national society can be created. The document gave the founders the unity and stability they wanted as a nation while safeguarding the rights and liberties of states and individuals. Continue Reading
Elizabeth Kupfer, one of four people indicted in the case involving former Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron, worked for about two months as a consultant on financial issues for Attorney General Gary King shortly after King took office in 2007. Continue Reading
Two nonprofits say the attorney general’s plan to appeal a judge’s ruling that slapped down an attempt to force them to register as political action committees is a waste of taxpayer money. Continue Reading
The longtime state director for U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman will leave that job to become the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s director for rural development in New Mexico, the Obama administration announced today in a news release. Continue Reading
Gov. Bill Richardson on Monday ordered state agencies to prepare plans to cut another 3 percent from their budgets. Meanwhile, a number of activist groups are calling for the opening of budget negotiations to the public.
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I caught up last week with lieutenant governor candidate Jose Campos, a Democratic state representative from Santa Rosa. He was in Las Cruces on a campaign trip and made a stop at U.S. Rep. Harry Teague’s town-hall meeting on health-care reform. Continue Reading
The Legislature and the governor can lead New Mexico through the most troubling economic crisis in decades to a brighter future with a cautious, calculated and compassionate approach to reducing spending and raising revenue. Continue Reading
NMPolitics.net columnist Carter Bundy will take part in a debate on health-care reform next week that is being hosted by the Rio Grande Foundation. Continue Reading
Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez has sent out a mailer that promotes her history of winning the crossover votes of Democrats and others in the four times she’s won election as a district attorney. Continue Reading