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The Floyd Lady Broncos defeated the Cliff Cowgirls to win the New Mexico 1A girls basketball championship. The Cliff Cowboys defeated the Tatum Coyotes to win the New Mexico 1A boys basketball championship. Floyd, New Mexico, has a population of 78. Cliff, New Mexico, is unincorporated. The high school (7-12) has 155 students and 12 [...]...
NewMexiKen - 1:09 p.m.
10:24 AM: I realize it is too warm for this to last, but it is snowing — I mean really snowing — at Casa NewMexiKen. 11:24 AM Sun out, snow all gone. You know what we call this kind of weather in Albuquerque? March ...
NewMexiKen - 9:26 a.m.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez gained in stature at today’s Republican Party preprimary nominating convention. Allen Weh did what he needed to do. And Pete Domenici Jr. is down but not necessarily out. That’s how Albuquerque pollster Brian Sanderoff analyzed the results following today’s vote....
New Mexico Independent - Sat 6:25 p.m. - 5 clicks 
The Independent is live from the 2010 Republican Party of New Mexico pre-primary convention. This is the convention where candidates attempt to get on the ballot with the votes of 20 percent of the delegates. If candidates do not get to 20 percent, the candidates can make the ballot by collecting signatures afterward. Click the headline to join in....
New Mexico Independent - Sat 11:43 a.m. - 3 clicks
The Texico Lady Wolverines defeated the Navajo Pine Lady Warriors last night to win the New Mexico 2AA girls state basketball championship. I was curious about Texico High School, knowing the town to be a tiny place on the Texas-New Mexico state line (population 1,065 in 2000 and I doubt it’s grown much). [...]...
NewMexiKen - Sat 10:27 a.m. - 3 clicks
ALBUQUERQUE — With the season on the line in the final minute of one of the most thrilling, intense and improbable come-from-behind victories of the 2010 Girls State Basketball Championships, there was no time for jokes. Unless you’re Lakeshia Padilla. With around 8,000 screaming fans on the edge of their seats and eyes transfixed on [...]...
NewMexiKen - Sat 9:29 a.m. - 3 clicks
Sen. Tom Udall discussed reforming the filibuster today at an event held by the Center for American Progress in Washington, D.C. Udall was the featured speaker at the event. Udall introduced his reform idea in January. Udall says that changing the rules now is not possible, but can be done with a majority vote at the [...]...
New Mexico Independent - Fri 4:04 p.m. - 5 clicks
New Mexico’s House delegation has identified a potential way to free up funds for cleaning up abandoned uranium mine sites in New Mexico. Congressmen Harry Teague, Ben Ray Luján, and Martin Heinrich introduced legislation Friday that would make available Surface Mine and Reclamation Act (SMCRA) funds that currently can’t be used for uranium mine remediation [...]...
New Mexico Independent - Fri 4:04 p.m. - 5 clicks
Members of the natural gas industry have sent a letter to both New Mexico senators asking that natural gas be added to any clean energy mandate that passes Congress, according to The Hill. In January, then-President of the New Mexico Oil and Gas Association Bob Gallagher told New Mexico Business Weekly, that while things looked better for [...]...
New Mexico Independent - Fri 4:04 p.m. - 5 clicks
In a report that will air on tonight’s evening news, several former state elections employees tell KUNM’s Jim Williams that allegations made by A.J. Salazar are true. Read the full text of the story, after the jump. Here’s the story, posted in full, with KUNM’s kind permission (listen to the audio here): It’s becoming clearer that there [...]...
New Mexico Independent - Fri 4:04 p.m. - 3 clicks
If Gov. Bill Richardson vetoes the food tax, Sen. President Pro Tem Tim Jennings, D-Roswell says he should make up the $68 million dollar budget difference by cutting tax incentives for the film industry. Jennings’ suggestion is a loaded one, with plenty of history. Richardson has resisted repeated legislative efforts in recent years to stop or reduce the [...]...
New Mexico Independent - Fri 3:43 p.m. - 5 clicks
The Independent will be on hand at the Albuquerque Hilton Saturday at noon to live blog the 2010 Republican Party pre-primary convention, where candidates for office will vie for enough votes to be placed on the primary election ballot. In particular, we’ll be watching to see who gets 20 percent in the five-way gubernatorial race between state [...]...
New Mexico Independent - Fri 3:23 p.m. - 6 clicks
Click for larger version or album Lt. Governor Diane Denish got an energetic send off yesterday on the road to this weekend's Democratic Party of New Mexico Pre-Primary Convention. She appeared at a rally of loyal supporters at WESST, a......
Democracy for New Mexico - Fri 10:34 a.m. - 4 clicks
“Although the Roman Catholic Church allowed Africans to be enslaved because they were presumed to have rejected Christianity, it forbade enslaving Indians because they were believed never to have heard of Christ. Nevertheless, the Spanish were allowed to enslave Indians who attacked them.” From an article in The Santa Fe New Mexican exploring the book The [...]...
NewMexiKen - Fri 9:29 a.m. - 4 clicks
From the Lawrence Rael Campaign: You are invited to celebrate the birthday of Lt. Governor candidate, Lawrence Rael. Please come and join the fun from 5:30-8:00 PM on Thursday, March 24, at the Embassy Suites (I-25 & Lomas) in Albuquerque......
Democracy for New Mexico - Fri 9:29 a.m. - 3 clicks
This week, Congressmen Harry Teague (NM-02), Ben Ray Luján (NM-03) and Martin Heinrich (NM-01) introduced legislation (H.R. 4817) to make all Surface Mine and Reclamation Act (SMCRA) funds eligible for the remediation of old uranium mines and mills. If the......
Democracy for New Mexico - Fri 8:06 a.m.
Big Dog checks out the first water of the season in the North Valley's original Acequia Madre. This week's water release turns the valley into a wonderland threaded with canals that make our late-winter windy dusty walks delightful. If you......
Cocoposts - Fri 6:03 a.m. - 2 clicks
From League of Women Voters Central NM (LWVCNM): To celebrate International Women’s Week, experts in the areas of human rights and climate justice, women’s studies, environmental sustainability, and faith will share a moderated panel discussing the local and international implications......
Democracy for New Mexico - Thu 2:08 p.m. - 3 clicks
We had an easy flight into Rio after a late flight into Atlanta. We took a bus tour while waiting to embark on the Veendam. This is Ipanema Beach. It is hot here and we will leave in a few hours to start visiting historic towns all the way down to Buenos Aires. More tomorrow! ...
Jim Baca: Only in New Mexico - Thu 1:29 p.m. - 3 clicks
Keeping up the good fight! Rep. Martin Heinrich (NM-01) today announced that he has joined 33 of his colleagues in the House in sending a letter to Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid urging him to end a procedural practice that......
Democracy for New Mexico - Thu 12:22 p.m. - 2 clicks
The Harry Montoya campaign has announced that the following elected officials have endorsed his candidacy for Commissioner of Public Lands: Santa Fe County Commissioner Virginia Vigil; Santa Fe City Councilors Carmichael Dominguez and Ron Trujillo; Former Santa Fe County Commissioners......
Democracy for New Mexico - Thu 9:52 a.m. - 3 clicks
On the campaign trail focusing on jobs, small business, families Come on down: Diane Denish will highlight the important role small businesses will play in New Mexico’s economic recovery at a pre-convention kick-off rally today in Albuquerque. The Road to......
Democracy for New Mexico - Thu 9:26 a.m.
Senator Tom Udall (D-NM) has written Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt in support of Think BIG Farmington’s proposal to become a test site for the company’s experimental project for ultra-high speed broadband internet networks in select locations across the country. The......
Democracy for New Mexico - Thu 8:46 a.m. - 4 clicks
It's not over yet, not by a long shot. We’re still waiting for the New Mexican economy to hit bottom. The most politically sensitive indicator of the state's economic health has climbed yet again, with the US Labor Department now pegging the January jobless rate at 8.5 percent of the work force, a new Great Recession high and creating an even more turbulent backdrop for the embryonic 2010 cam...
Joe Monahan - Wed 11:46 p.m. - 4 clicks
A friend, Elizabeth Barraclough, who walks and photographs in this Albuquerque North Valley open space field with her digital camera nearly every night at sundown, took this picture Monday night. She said it was in a succession of photos seconds......
Cocoposts - Wed 5:26 p.m. - 4 clicks
Governor Bill Richardson today signed SB 40, a bill sponsored by Sen. George Munoz (D-Gallup) that removes the ban on concealed carry licensees from bringing their weapons into New Mexico restaurants with beer and wine licenses. However, Governor Richardson said......
Democracy for New Mexico - Wed 1:42 p.m. - 5 clicks
Governor Bill Richardson issued a statement saying he has taken final action on all bills passed by the Legislature during its regular 2010 session that ended in February. The Governor had until today to act on all bills. Out of......
Democracy for New Mexico - Wed 1:21 p.m. - 6 clicks
The 17th Annual César Chávez Day March and Festival will take place on Saturday, March 27, from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM in Albuquerque. The march will begin at the Westside Community Center located at 1250 Isleta Blvd. SW (map)......
Democracy for New Mexico - Wed 12:26 p.m. - 6 clicks
Today, Congressman Harry Teague’s Energy Jobs for Veterans Act (H.R. 4592) will be heard by the full House Veteran’s Affairs Committee, according to a statement released by his office. The bill, aimed at improving employment opportunities for veterans, seeks to......
Democracy for New Mexico - Wed 10:48 a.m. - 3 clicks
Health care reform has stalled, then started again at the national level, but here in New Mexico we are slowly but surely putting the pieces into place. Yesterday the Governor signed a measure (HB12) that would direct at least 85% of premiums paid to health insurance companies go to medical care, rather than administration and profit. It’s something that we’ve......
State Senator Dede Feldman - Wed 7:48 a.m. - 4 clicks
The City of Albuquerque's budget is as bad as I predicted it would be and Mayor Berry's administration is the one that has to deal with it. City residents and city employees just need to pony up to this situation which is the culmination of over spending by Mayor Marty Chavez and his councils and the general meltdown in economy. It will be the most harrowing budget year ever. I will b...
Jim Baca: Only in New Mexico - Wed 6:49 a.m. - 6 clicks
VP Biden You can give some of the thanks to Vice-President Joe Biden for the improved financial fortunes of New Mexico's two national nuclear weapons labs. So says ABQ US Rep. Martin Heinrich who tells us he sees budget growth coming for Sandia Labs after several relatively flat years. That's a big deal for the state's largest city as Sandia's budget is $2.2 billion annually. The two lab...
Joe Monahan - Mon 11:25 p.m. - 7 clicks
New Mexico Defamation Suit uses their patented Manny Aragon head ScandalRater to give our Secretary of State 2.5 out of 5 for the stuff she pulled according to a former employee, who wrote what Suit calls one hell of a......
Cocoposts - Mar 6 - 15 clicks
I have been writing a few articles for law enforcement publications and I thought I would share with you the following one I wrote for the New Mexico Lawman, a publication of the New Mexico Sheriff's and Police Association. Drug Interdiction Summit Seeks to Solve Northern New Mexico Drug Problem. Mayor Joseph Maestas spent his last days in office at a Drug Interdiction summit in his...
Sheriff Greg Solano Blog - Mar 5 - 6 clicks
In 1994 it was a six cents a gallon tax on gasoline that became the rallying cry for a disaffected electorate and a marginalized Republican Party. They had enough punch to throw Democrat Bruce King out of the Governor's office. Fast forward to 2010 and history could repeat. The two percent tax on food approved in the Special Session of the NM Legislature that concluded Thursday has all the ingr...
Joe Monahan - Mar 5 - 6 clicks
Kenneth Gonzales The question in the wake of the nomination of Assistant US Attorney Ken Gonzales as the new NM US Attorney is what role current Republican US Attorney Greg Fouratt will play in the office. (White House release here .) Fouratt crowed publicly prior to the Gonzales announcement that he knew who the White House was going to pick and that he and the NM public would be pl...
Joe Monahan - Mar 3 - 4 clicks
Sens. Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall announced that Kenneth Gonazales has been nominated to replace U.S. Attorney Greg Fouratt. Gonzales, a Pojoaque High School graduate, has been working in the Las Cruces office of the U.S. Attorney. Fouratt has been interim U.S. Attorney since David Iglesias was forced out during the controversial 2006 U.S. Attorney firings by the Bush Administration. “Pres...
What's the Word with Peter St. Cyr - Mar 3 - 6 clicks
Senate Minority Whip Bill Payne, who represents part of Albuquerque's far Northeast heights, said Bernalillo County will be hit hardest by the multitude of tax increases the State Senate passed in Santa Fe last night. In the video below, Payne compares Bernalillo County to other counties. And claims it already pays twice as much in property taxes, and levies upon levies as well as having one of t...
What's the Word with Peter St. Cyr - Mar 3
You can bet that Governor Richardson will take that job as the movie industry's lobbyist in Washington in a heartbeat. Who wouldn't. He can flee the state's nagging revenue mess, the Albuquerque Journal, and his sagging approval ratings all at once. I hope he gets the job because he could continue to make New Mexico a great place for the film industry. I have been trying to figure ...
Jim Baca: Only in New Mexico - Mar 3 - 5 clicks
Richardson & Redford All of you who bet that Big Bill was going to finish out his second four year term, start hedging those bets. Richardson is reportedly under consideration to become the CEO for the Motion Picture Association of America . This is a major plum. The current CEO, former Congressman Dan Glickman, pulls down a whopping $1.3 million a year in salary and benefits. The job i...
Joe Monahan - Mar 2 - 6 clicks
Well, I just have to say the proposed tax hikes by the legislature just are horrendous. We need tax hikes but we don't need regressive ones. And the most regressive is the sales tax. And the cowardly leadership pounded out a deal that absolutely screws the cities in New Mexico by making them the ones to reimpose a tax on food. The Mayors in New Mexico should descend upon th...
Jim Baca: Only in New Mexico - Mar 2 - 3 clicks
