Ranch Radio will stay with the western theme this week. Here is Jimmy Wakely's 1949 recording of 'Neath The Purple Of The Hills. In addition to his recording career (which started in 1942) Wakely made 28 western movies.
Time for some deep insider notes from the Roundhouse as we approach the heart of Legislature 2010. Our Alligators and wall-leaners are on the job during what may be the most critical legislative session of them all.
Dean speaking to 5000+ in Seattle, August 2003
Howard Dean is visiting New Mexico TODAY so come on out and discuss what's up in today's Democratic landscape with former presidential candidate Howard Dean, the founder of Democracy for America and the Fifty State Strategy, and a [...]
Today the Senate voted to override the Governor's veto of Senate Bill 531. SB 531 was introduced by Senator Timothy M. Keller (D-Bernalillo-17) and was passed almost unanimously by both chambers during last year's regular legislative session. Last week the Senate voted to recall [...]
Anyone convicted of domestic violence in the previous three years would be disqualified from being hired as a police officer if legislation passed by the House Monday becomes law. The bill also adds conviction of the crime as grounds for suspending or revoking a police officer’s certification. The vote [...]
The Senate sent a strong message to the Fourth Floor Monday, overriding one of two vetoes Gov. Bill Richardson used to block 2009 legislation from becoming law.
The vote was 34-8, with a bipartisan collection of Democrats and Republicans easily achieving the two-thirds of those present [...]
The Senate version of the same day voter registration bill, SB 161 sponsored by Sen. John Sapien (D-Corrales), passed its first committee, Rules, on a 4 to 3 party line vote today. There was an attempt by Sen. Dianna Duran (R-Tularosa) to include a photo ID requirement [...]
The Hispanic Education Act’s next move in the House is a floor vote, after the House version of the bill, HB 150, cleared the House Education Committee this morning on a seven to three vote. On the Senate side, the final committee for SB 132 is Senate Finance. [...]
The 2010 regular session will end with an answer to the state’s budget problem. But will it be a lasting answer? Sen. John Arthur Smith, D-Deming, said Monday that the odds are “pretty high” that lawmakers will need to come back to Santa Fe for a special session before [...]
Diane Denish will file for governor tomorrow with more than 10,200 signatures, including some from every New Mexico county -- all 33 of them. Instead of hiring paid canvassers, as some campaigns do, the Denish campaign mobilized more than 400 volunteers to collect these signatures.
“I [...]
U.S. Rep. Harry Teague, D-N.M., had little to say today about his looming election battle against former Republican U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce, saying he’s more focused on doing his job.
“I’ve been working on being a congressman, not campaigning,” Teague said in an interview at the Roundhouse in Santa [...]
The sign posted on the door of the Senate Finance Committee room is clear: no domestic partnerships hearing until the budget is done. “This session is about fiscal appropriations,” Senator and Finance Committee Chairman John Arthur Smith, D-Deming, said succinctly.
Sen. Smith said he [...]
Today the New Mexico House passed House Joint Memorial 15, sponsored by Rep. Jeff Steinborn (D-Las Cruces), to require audio and video broadcasting of legislative interim committees beginning this year. HJM 15, which passed today by a margin of 62-2 with only Reps. Eliseo Lee Alcon (D-Milan) and [...]
State Reps. Jeff Steinborn, Right, and Janice Arnold-Jones talking during today’s vote on the webcasting memorial. (Photo by Heath Haussamen)
The House easily passed a memorial today that, if [...]
I asked House Minority Whip Keith Gardner for a statement on the record. Why isn't any stink being made over stripping archiving from legislative webcasting?Secretary of State Mary Herrera is sounding the alarm as loud as she can at the Roundhouse: there isn’t enough money for 2010 primary or general election.
In a letter sent to legislators Herrera says as of now the state is $467,800 short for the primary and $784,450 short [...]
“The House had had this a number of years,” Senate President Pro Tem Tim Jennings, D-Roswell, said of the trophy, “and we’re glad that they finally now have the fortitude, the self-control and feel good enough about themselves that they can go ahead and bring this back.”
The [...]
After consolidating three bills into one, the Senate Rules Committee made a few more big changes to a bill designed to reform the State Investment Council.
“Blending these three bill together we finally have true reform,” said Sen. Cisco McSorley, D-Albuquerque.
The new bill would change the State Investment Council (SIC) [...]
A bill that would allow same-day voter registration at early voting sites cleared the Senate Rules Committee on a 4-3 party-line vote. The committee turned back an attempt to require government-issued photo ID when registering at early voting sites.
Sen. Majority Leader Michael Sanchez, D- Belen, absent for [...]
Jayann Sepich, the mother of slain NMSU student Katie Sepich, speaks today at a news [...]
A bill that would allow a tax district in Las Cruces to issue tax-exempt bonds to help pay for revitalizing downtown cleared the Senate unanimously Monday morning.
The bonds would be backed by future state and local tax proceeds.
The district, known as a Tax Increment Development District, was created [...]
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On the scene: this is a post by M.E. Broderick.
Joel Trujillo, a Facebook friend of mine, asked me to attend a LULAC Young Adults meeting on February 5th at UNM. It was a Friday night, and I was beat from the [...]
Santa Fe mayoral hopeful David Coss is in the lead, says a poll from Santa Fe New Mexican.
With plans to build solar power plants in Lea and Eddy counties, SunEdison wants to secure a contract beyond 20 years, says the Hobbs News-Sun.
The Farmington Daily Times reports on the [...]
National Tea Party Convention organizer Judson Phillips (Photo by David Weigel)
NASHVILLE — In the weeks leading up to the National Tea Party Convention, Judson Phillips didn’t do much talking to the media. The founder of Tea [...]
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