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Pete V. Domenici, the son of Italian immigrants who rose to become a power broker in the U.S. Senate, died Wednesday in New Mexico. The Republican was known for reaching across the partisan divide and his work on the federal budget and energy policy over a career that spanned more than 30 years.
Lucky Varela: Longtime state employee served for 30 years in New Mexico House Luciano "Lucky" Varela died Saturday night in Santa Fe. He was 82. Check out this story on scsun-news.com: Representative Luciano "Lucky" Varela, D-Santa Fe, sits in the house chambers as house members honor him on Friday, Feb. 12, 2016.
Attorney Bill Canfield said political maneuvering is behind a request for an extended period to respond to Steve Pearce's lawsuit in federal court. Pearce attorney: Stall tactics starving campaign of funding Attorney Bill Canfield said political maneuvering is behind a request for an extended period to respond to Steve Pearce's lawsuit in federal court.
Rep. Ben Ray LujA n, chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, at his family farm in New Mexico. congressman, barely finding his way through the halls of the Capitol, when his mom called with an urgent message from home.
This photo taken June 13, 2017, shows a chile field in northern Mexico being irrigated. Mexican Mennonite farmer Pedro Suderman has increased his red and green chile production as U.S. demand has grown and New Mexico's harvest has decreased.
Yellow stone County Dis trict Judge Rus sell Fagg formed an exploratory committee to challenge Sen. Jon Tester in Montana. Fagg recently announced he'd be retiring from the court.
In this May 23, 2014 file photo, Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell speaks with the local community and other federal, state, tribal and local leaders celebrating President Obama's designation of the Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument at Onate High School in Las Cruces, N.M. The Organ Mountains-Desert Peaks National Monument is among 27 monuments where a review has been ordered by President Donald Trump that might remove protections previously considered irreversible.
Just hours after Republican leaders in the U.S. Senate released a draft version of a health insurance bill to replace the federal Affordable Care Act, New Mexico's two senators were joining other Democrats in trying to stop the measure from receiving the 50 votes needed for passage. In a statement, U.S. Sen. Tom Udall said he has received more than 10,000 letters and emails urging him to oppose the bill, which would roll back some rules for health insurers and eventually reduce the number of low-income Americans covered under the government-funded Medicaid program.
Santa Fe Community College student Katherine Rodriguez says she is worried about what will happen when she has to start repaying her student loans. At 20.8 percent, New Mexico has the highest student loan default rate in the United States.Luis SA nchez Saturno The New Mexican Sunny Montez fills out a form last month to drop a class at Santa Fe Community College.
An exhibition of the New Mexico History Museum on New Mexican Crypto-Jews in the late 20th Century. May 18, 2017, IMPORTANT MESSAGE: This is the final week to view our exhibition Fluid Identities: New Mexico Crypto-Jews in the Late 20th Century... Read more NOTE: Public hours for the Jewish History Museum will conclude on Sunday, May 28 and resume on Continue Reading The Consulate of Mexico is hosting an art exhibition "United by Art".
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.