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I’ll be heading to Washington this week, along with legislators from other states who have been designated to lobby the Senate on behalf of the White House Working Group of State Legislators for Health Care Reform. Continue Reading
During these difficult times, a broad-based tax on food to fix the budget shortfall is a bad idea. I will not support it, plain and simple. Instead, here are a few other ideas for reducing the state’s budget shortfall. Continue Reading
The former secretary of New Mexico’s Aging and Long-term Services Department will be starting a similar post in the Obama administration next month after recently pleading no contest to drunken driving. Continue Reading
The Ethics Commission Act recently endorsed by the Legislature’s interim Courts, Corrections and Justice Committee is probably the best example of open, public, bipartisan government at work that I have been a part of in the last 25 years. I am more hopeful than ever that this bill will succeed. Continue Reading
Gilbert Apodaca, one of Doña Ana County’s most notorious politicians in recent times, says he’s “likely” to run for a seat on the state’s Public Regulation Commission next year. Continue Reading
How do we increase support for educators without increasing taxes or substantially increasing the state budget? Why don’t we require recipients of the Lottery Scholarship to volunteer their time helping educators? Continue Reading
After being indicted in August on 50 counts related to public corruption, former Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron was allowed to keep her job with the state Department of Workforce Solutions. Now, she’s learned she will be laid of Jan. 8 along with dozens of other political appointees. Continue Reading
Attorney General Gary King’s office can’t say how much taxpayer money has been spent on litigation with two nonprofits even as King appeals a judge’s ruling against his attempt to force the nonprofits to register as political action committees. Continue Reading
“Soft landings” is how the Albuquerque Journal characterizes the contracts Gov. Bill Richardson’s administration gave to two members of his cabinet after they left those public jobs. Continue Reading
Webcasting has made the Legislature more accessible for Tax and Rev Secretary Rick Homans, so he’s decided to use the same tool to make the Budget Balancing Task Force more accessible to New Mexicans. Let’s hope others in state government follow his example. Continue Reading
So Virgin Galactic unveiled on Monday its long-awaited SpaceShipTwo – the craft it plans to use to ferry paying passengers into suborbital space from Spaceport America. The big question now: When will we see it fly? Continue Reading
The 2010 election is in full swing, and the governor’s race has already degraded into the usual partisan, nasty mess. In contrast, some prominent Republicans have nothing but nice things to say about State Auditor Hector Balderas, a rising star in the Democratic Party who’s up for re-election next year. Continue Reading
Before retiring from his job as deputy director for the U.S. Central Command, Rear Admiral William Payne worked closely with General David Petraeus. His frequent travel to Afghanistan and Iraq has given him a unique perspective on the military situation on the ground there. Continue Reading
Some 49 percent of voters in last week’s non-scientific poll on this site said they approve of the job Gary King is doing as attorney general. Continue Reading
A day after the governor’s office announced the layoffs of 59 political appointees, a Republican senator is asking questions about “emergency hires” at the state Health Department. Continue Reading