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The former leader of the New Mexico Democratic Party is officially running for an open congressional seat and hopes to become the nation's first Native American congresswoman. Debra Haaland announced her bid Tuesday after recently filing a statement of candidacy with the Federal Election Commission to run for the state's 1st Congressional District.
The New Mexico Legislature sued Republican Gov. Susana Martinez on Friday over budget vetoes that would effectively eliminate the legislative branch of government by cutting off its funding amid an escalating clash over how to resolve the state's financial crisis. The move by the Democratic-controlled Legislature was an extraordinary step in a drawn-out feud over budget shortfalls that already have triggered cuts to public school athletic programs, layoffs at state museums and shortages of public defenders.
Some Senate leaders and behavioral health advocates are voicing frustration that Gov. Susana Martinez did not sign legislation that would have addressed the handling of fraud accusation leveled against providers. Senate President Pro Tem Mary Kay Papen sponsored the bill in response to a shake-up within the behavioral health care system that started in 2013 when the state froze payments to 15 nonprofits that provided services to the state's most needy residents.
New Mexico's health care sector and policy makers were warily studying a proposal Tuesday by U.S. House Republicans to replace the Affordable Care Act that has cut the state's uninsured rate in half since 2013. Of particular concern were measures to reduce federal matching funds for newcomers to Medicaid health coverage starting in mid-2019, and link overall federal spending on Medicaid to a limited, per-beneficiary amount.
President Donald Trump, on Tuesday, signed an executive order to reopen the way for the completion of the highly controversial Dakota Access Pipeline. That news has reverberated through the dozens of Grant County residents who traveled to Standing Rock, N.D., in the latter part of 2016 to join the protests against the oil pipeline through Sioux tribal lands.
They gathered outside UNM Hospital to stand up for the 266-thousand New Mexicans that could potentially lose their healthcare. Arguing this is a lifeline for New Mexicans, U.S Rep Michelle Lujan Grisham says her republican colleagues in congress have no replacement plan.
Protesters in Santa Fe, N.M., urge electors nationwide to vote against Donald Trump as a crowd of protesters gather Monday, Dec. 19, 2016, outside the state Capitol. Protesters in Santa Fe, N.M., urge electors nationwide to vote against Donald Trump as a crowd of protesters gather Monday, Dec. 19, 2016, outside the state Capitol.
Voter stickers sit in a pile near a ballot machine at an early voting site in Albuquerque, N.M., on Thursday, Nov. 3, 2016. Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver says more than one-third of the county's registered voters have already cast ballots and she expects turnout to reach 2008 levels when 70 percent of voters in the state's most populous county went to the polls.
Sunday evening's rally in Albuquerque will mark Trump's second visit to the state. A pre-primary campaign stop in May was attended by thousands of supporters but protesters outside sparked violence in the streets.
Super PACs fuel election negativity Candidates' campaigns generally avoid getting dirty so negative messages are typically delivered by PACs. Check out this story on Daily-Times.com: In New Mexico, many candidates avoid getting dirty so negative messages are often delivered by PACs that do not have to report what they're spending on specific races GOP House candidate Vicki Chavez wants her Deming neighbors to know she had nothing to do with the vicious attack ads.
More than one month after Gov. Susana Martinez called for a special session of the New Mexico state Legislature, elected officials and staff still have not set a date to reconvene and fix the dire state budget. Aside from the age-old tax or cut argument, officials continue to debate the possibility of siphoning unspent money from even education funds.
The mother of a 10-year-old New Mexico girl who was found dead and dismembered told police she looked for men online and at work to sexually assault her daughter, according to search warrants obtained by a newspaper. The mother of a 10-year-old New Mexico girl who was found dead and dismembered told police she looked for men online and at work to sexually assault her daughter, according to search warrants in the case.
In this Dec. 9, 2014, file photo, Christine Anderson, executive director of the New Mexico Spaceport Authority, poses for a photo at the end of the taxiway at Spaceport America in Upham, N.M. Anderson is resigning, saying she still believes in the commercial space industry and that Spaceport America has a role to play. Anderson announced her resignation in a memo sent Tuesday, July 19, 2016, to the authority's board of directors and New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez.
At the time Anderson took over, Virgin Galactic head Richard Branson was predicting that his spacecraft would be blasting passengers into sub-orbital space from Spaceport America by the summer of 2012 Anderson steps down as head of spaceport At the time Anderson took over, Virgin Galactic head Richard Branson was predicting that his spacecraft would be blasting passengers into sub-orbital space from Spaceport America by the summer of 2012 Check out this story on lcsun-news.com: http://lcsun.co/29Sms7i Spaceport America Chief Executive Officer Christine Anderson, looks on as the reflection of the spaceport is reflected in her glasses in July of 2009.
In this Aug. 14, 2015, file photo, water flows through a series of sediment retention ponds built to reduce heavy metal and chemical contaminants from the Gold King Mine wastewater accident, in the spillway downstream from the mine, outside Silverton, Colo. New Mexico is suing the state of Colorado, saying its neighbor to the north should be held responsible for the contamination caused by the 2015 Gold King Mine spill as well as decades of toxic drainage from mines near the headwaters of the Animas River.
From right, Nicole Schutz and Marco Peter Serna, candidate for First Judicial District Attorney, campaign in front of Gonzales Community School during the New Mexico Primary Election in Santa Fe, on Tuesday, June 7, 2016.
Donald Trump threatened last week to run to replace New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez, but still wants her to support his candidacy for president. " I'd like to have it ," Trump said Thursday, when asked by The New Mexican if he'd want an endorsement from her.
There remains the technical impediment that the president is constitutionally barred from a third term. But the longer the campaign goes on, the higher Obama's approval rating rises.
As the head of New Mexico's free-market think tank I'd like to offer my own thoughts on Johnson's tenure. I'd also like to refute some of what Mr. Spiller has to say in his critique.