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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.
Update: The recount is over and here are the final results for the Lt. Gov. race: Brian Colon- 591 delegate votes, 34.54% Lawrence Rael- 379, 22.15% Joe Campos- 337, 19.69% Jerry Ortiz y Pino 323, 18.87% Linda Lopez 81, 4.73%......
Democracy for New Mexico - 1:09 p.m.
“But trying to demonstrate facts to reporters is a waste of time.” The Ad Contrarian in an blog post about some of the recent FALSE news reports about Toyota titled “The Prius Balloon Boy.” Thanks to SinPantalones who had this on Twitter. ...
NewMexiKen - 12:43 p.m.
RONALD REAGAN deserves posterity’s honor, and so it makes sense that the capital’s airport and a major building there are named for him. But the proposal to substitute his image for that of Ulysses S. Grant on the $50 bill is a travesty that would dishonor the nation’s bedrock principles of union, freedom and equality [...]...
NewMexiKen - 10:42 a.m.
First published here four years ago today. Mack, official oldest grandchild of NewMexiKen, was nervous. According to his mother, it was “pajama day” at Little Lambs pre-school. That meant that all the five-year-olds were supposed to wear a favorite pair of pajamas to school. In his pajamas in the car on the way however, it felt [...]...
NewMexiKen - 9:40 a.m.
Quincy Jones and Michael Caine are 77 today. Jones has 79 Grammy nominations and 27 wins to his credit. He produced “Thriller,” which has sold more than 100 million copies. Caine has six Oscar nominations and two wins, both for best supporting actor — Hannah and Her Sisters and Cider House Rules. His first best [...]...
NewMexiKen - 9:40 a.m.
This one was first posted here five years ago today. It was titled: What four-year-old boys sometimes do to their one-year-old brothers when Mom isn’t looking The little guy seems more proud than irritated. ...
NewMexiKen - 9:40 a.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.
Santos Brazil today. I was up early to watch us enter this beautiful port. I will post pictures this evening. I read the Journal online today and see that the political party conventions are over. Now everyone must understand that they are meaningless and it is time to go to regular every day voters. Any candidate who did not get the 20% delegate vote should get addit...
Jim Baca: Only in New Mexico - 4:09 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 ![]()
Brian Colon Here are the results of the Saturday Dem preprimary convention in the Dem Lt. Governor's race. Keep in mind that in all races 20% is the magic number to get an official spot on the June 1 primary ballot. You can still get on without it, but have to submit additional petition signatures. (Keep scrolling for GOP preprimary results). Brian Colon 34.54 percent; Lawrence Rael 22.15 pe...
Joe Monahan - Sat 5:45 p.m.
In the Democratic lieutenant governor’s race, only Brian Colón and Lawrence Rael qualified today to appear on the ballot, and in the land commissioner race only one candidate – Ray Powell – topped the 20 percent threshold. Here are the full results” Lieutenant governor • Brian Colón: 34.3 percent • Lawrence Rael: 21.9 percent • Joe Campos: 19.9 percent • Jerry [...]...
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Martinez Dona Ana County District Attorney Susana Martinez out organized her competitors and scored an upset victory at Saturday's GOP preprimary convention, garnering nearly half the vote in a five way race. Martinez's showing beat expectations and catapults here to the front of the pack, with the big question now whether this out sized victory will translate into the funds she will need t...
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Update, 2:55 p.m. Lieutenant governor • Brian Moore: 41.24 percent • Kent Cravens: 27.64 percent • John Sanchez: 22.81 percent • J.R. Damron: 8.29 percent Land Commissioner • Matt Rush: 64.87 percent • James Jackson: 18.03 percent •Spiro Vassilopoulos: 13.34 percent • Bob Cornelius: 3.74 percent Governor • Susana Martinez – 46.65 percent • Allen Weh – 26.32 percent • Janice Arnold-Jones – 13.16 pe...
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Bobbi wrote the blog today. Paraty is a proposed UNESCO World Heritage site well known for its cobblestone streets. The architecture in the historic area has very little alteration. Paraty was abandoned twice in its history. Originally it served the gold trade route until a nearby road to Rio was built and then as a coffee route until the ...
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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....
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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 ![]()
Today is the birthday … of Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee Mike Stoller. He’s 77. Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller have written some of the most spirited and enduring rock and roll songs: “Hound Dog” (originally cut by Big Mama Thornton in 1953 and covered by Elvis Presley three years later), “Love [...]...
NewMexiKen - Sat 8:43 a.m.
Four bank takeovers by the FDIC this week. We’re up to 30 for 2010. ...
NewMexiKen - Fri 8:49 p.m.
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 [...]...
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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 [...]...
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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 [...]...
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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 [...]...
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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 [...]...
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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 [...]...
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When Democrats claim we're the party of the people, we mean it. This weekend approximately 2,160 delegates will be on hand to hear speeches, vote for primary candidates, get motivated and talk politics with fellow Dems from all over the......
Democracy for New Mexico - Fri 12:15 p.m.
We were up early for a tender ride from the Veendam to Ilha Grande, Brazil. This is the third largest Brazilian island and it has been virtually turned into a nature preserve. It was warm and humid but very bearable on our hike to the beaches and waterfalls. After being out for a few hours hiking away we stopped at a beach dive for the best beer I h...
Jim Baca: Only in New Mexico - Fri 12:00 p.m.
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......
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“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......
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… was on this date in 1933. President Franklin Roosevelt spoke to the people on the banking crisis just eight days after taking office. He began: My friends: I want to talk for a few minutes with the people of the United States about banking — to talk with the comparatively few who understand [...]...
NewMexiKen - Fri 8:44 a.m.
The playwright Edward Albee is 82 today. Barbara Feldon, Agent 99 of the “Get Smart” TV series, is 77. James Taylor is 62 today. He’s seen a lot of fire and he’s seen a lot of rain by now. Liza Minnelli is 64. Jon Provost is 60. Who? Timmy on Lassie. Courtney [...]...
NewMexiKen - Fri 8:44 a.m.
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.
In organizing my vast accumulations of stuff crap ephemera, I found and read a huge stack of letters between my father and mother written during the war - some censored. They spent only weeks together after their marriage before being......
Cocoposts - Fri 8:06 a.m. - 2 clicks ![]()
“Off to kid’s Honors Breakfast. Why is it never an Honors Happy Hour?” Hugh ...
NewMexiKen - Fri 7:26 a.m.
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The new dwelling for coco ranchito is almost complete - meaning another move in a few weeks. ::ragged sigh:: Here's pictures of the two-part unit - a single wide by any other name - looking houseboaty at the factory. And......
Cocoposts - Fri 6:03 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......
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Dem Reps. Thomas, Rodefer & Giannini State GOP operatives have their chalkboards out and are toting up which Democratic House seats are most vulnerable this election cycle. The Dems are in total control of the state House--45 D's to 25 R's--after picking up some seats in the 2008 Obama landslide. The R's think there will be a rubber band effect, with some districts that should never...
Joe Monahan - Thu 11:25 p.m.
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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......
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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! ...
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New Mexico Independent - Thu 12:22 p.m. - 4 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......
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NewMexiKen - Thu 9:52 a.m. - 4 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......
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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......
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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...
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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......
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New Mexico Independent - Wed 3:45 p.m. - 6 clicks ![]()
Here's another follow up to my posts yesterday and Monday on Saturday's DFA-DFNM debate for Democratic lieutenant governor candidates at UNM Law School. Below are videos of Rep. Joe Campos, Brian Colon, Sen. Linda Lopez, Sen. Jerry Ortiz y Pino......
Democracy for New Mexico - Wed 3:44 p.m.
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......
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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......
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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)......
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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......
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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 ![]()
NewMexiKen - Wed 7:07 a.m. - 2 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 ![]()
The Horse Race Alligator handicapping is in full swing as Saturday's preprimary conventions draw ever closer. Everyone wonders who will snare the minimum 20 percent of the delegates to win an official spot on the June 1st primary ballot. Not reaching that mark has always meant the death knell is sounded for a candidacy. A contender can still get on the ballot without the 20 percent by filing ...
Joe Monahan - Wed 12:02 a.m. - 2 clicks ![]()
New Mexico Independent - Tue 6:22 p.m. - 11 clicks ![]()
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I am finally around to packing for the South American Cruise. This will be our second cruise on Holland America's Veendam. It was refit last year and it will be interesting to see what they have done to it. Here is hoping that Delta airlines does their part in getting us to Rio on time for departure. I will post from the ship when I get photos worthy of it. ...
Jim Baca: Only in New Mexico - Tue 12:07 p.m.
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Or in-between storms with the Rick Perlstein book of that title about Barry Goldwater, described well by writer Kevin Murphy. In Perlstein's book, what's past is prologue: "It is hard, now, to grasp just how profoundly the tectonic plates of......
Cocoposts - Tue 9:22 a.m.
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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...
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Mikaela says: An hour in, and so far ... snoresville! Only the histrionic tribute to John Hughes has been worth my attention. I mean really, who cares about the movies this year? Is anyone out there rooting for a particular movie? I can want Precious to win just for the exposure, but did I see it? No! Too much of a downer. To be fair, Kleenex ads are too much of a downer for me, these day...
m-pyre - Mon 3:07 p.m. - 3 clicks ![]()
Di & Bill--Happier Times Diane Denish's Operation Separation is off the launch pad and not a moment too soon for jittery Dems. The Light Guv began what will be a long and arduous effort to distance herself from the Governor she has served under for eight years by sharply attacking a state application for federal education funds that was found wanting and rejected. She called the state e...
Joe Monahan - Mon 3:07 p.m. - 2 clicks ![]()
I for one am happy to see University students protesting again. It is about time they got off their collective butts. They have finally figured out that they are being had by their schools raising tuitions and their banks charging usurious interest rates on those loans they need. I wish they would protest things, like the patriot act, that affects others and not just themselves, ...
Jim Baca: Only in New Mexico - Mon 3:07 p.m.
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The scheme to pipe water from northern to southern Nevada suffered a set-back at the Nevada Legislature. John Fleck notes Emily Green's Chance of Rain post. Green argues that the Nevada legislature, grappling with budget shortfalls that resulted from the......
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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......
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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...
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From the Guardian: The Vatican was today rocked by a sex scandal reaching into Pope Benedict's household after a chorister was sacked for allegedly procuring male prostitutes for a papal gentleman-in-waiting. Angelo Balducci, a Gentleman of His Holiness, was caught......
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Below a photo of fabled Coco Jo - the mint chocolate cookie made in California somewhere that could save their economy. It's like a Girl Scout Thin Mint on steroids or all Tim Burtonized like Helena Bonham Carter's head. I......
Cocoposts - Mar 5
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Everyone in the media and the right wing says we have new taxes now that the Legislature passed about $230 million in levies. But these can't really be said to be new in the strictest sense. The legislature cut these same taxes, along with the Governor over time since 2003. The Governor proudly points to the fact that $1 billion in taxes were cut including the food tax. So now ...
Jim Baca: Only in New Mexico - Mar 5
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...
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Attorneys representing the State Land Office say because Land Commissioner Pat Lyons is granted ”complete control over the care, control, and disposition of state trust lands,” the Supreme Court should reject Attorney General Gary King’s premise that four controversial land swaps at Whites Peak were predetermined “shams.” A month ago, the Supreme Court granted an emergency petition ...
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My little neighborhood Wells Fargo is so cute and small and friendly looking. The bank tellers make complimentary remarks about my hats and give Big Dog little pink and green bone-shaped treats. But after hearing about this he'll want a......
Cocoposts - Mar 4
NewMexiKen - Mar 4 - 4 clicks ![]()
I am getting very frustrated with the Department of Interior's inertia on finding good state level directors for the Bureau of Land Management. Many of the directors who were appointed by the bush administration and who willfully carried out suspect land, oil and gas transactions are still sitting pretty. We are now 14 months into the new administration and there seems to be little mov...
Jim Baca: Only in New Mexico - Mar 4
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...
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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
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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 ...
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Former Illinois Governor Blagojevich did stand-up at his alma mater, Northwestern. Or rather, he gave an ethics lecture. From the Chicago Tribune: Rod Blagojevich paints himself as victim, but a capacity crowd of 1,000 people at Northwestern University saw him......
Cocoposts - Mar 3
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...
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This has been a sad winter season for me as they were my friends and constituents -- election day judges -- community activists -- citizens who valued the North Valley, Old Town and the community around us. ...
State Senator Dede Feldman - Mar 2
NewMexiKen - Mar 2 - 4 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...
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