With Bill Richardson expected to announce in the next 10 days whether he’ll run for president, I’m starting to wonder about his choice of time frame. Next week, Democrats in the House will be looking to push their “First 100 Hours” agenda, which includes: Tuesday, January 9 – Implement the 9/11 Commission Recommendations Wednesday, January [...]

Depends on who you ask, and the yardstick you use, apparently: Many New Mexico students start out life behind, enter schools that aren’t well-prepared to help them and receive little support in moving from education to a career, a report said Wednesday. Education Week, in its Quality Counts 2007 report, ranked New Mexico last in [...]

Last month, I wrote a story (no longer on the Daily Press site, for PDF version click here) on firefighting costs, and a report issued by the U.S. Dept. of Agriculture. I looked at the ways in which New Mexico has worked to improve conditions in the wildland urban interface — where forests meet homes and [...]

From KOB-TV: Gov. Bill Richardson will push next year’s Legislature to ban cockfighting in New Mexico. Richardson said at a news conference in Santa Fe on Wednesday that he would support a ban and would actively try to get the proposal approved by lawmakers. New Mexico and Louisiana are the only states that still allow [...]

Read Jim Baca: Fast forward to a report put out by the Livestock, Environment and Development Initiative, an effort funded in part by the World Bank. Read the report’s executive summary here. It turns out that livestock production accounts for more greenhouse gas emmissions than the transportation sector. Cattle Farts are warming up the planet. [...]

The Daily Press will have our year-end wrap up of stories next week, but Heath Haussamen has his own take over on his blog: Scandal, Richardson’s influence shaped 2006 In New Mexico, 2006 will be remembered for two things politically – widespread scandal in both parties and at all levels of government, and the impressive [...]

I’m late in mentioning this, but I wanted to put a plug in for Child’s Play. I posted a button to the site in the sidebar a week or so back, but failed to include any information. I’ll just go right to the source: Since 2003, gamers have banded together through registered Seattle-based charity, Child’s [...]

Heath Haussamen has the goods: House Democrats have voted to keep Ben Lujan as their speaker. That’s about all I can tell you at this point. The closed-door meeting is still ongoing. I don’t know the vote count, but I’m told that Lujan has won. The representatives have not yet decided who will be majority [...]

Mario Burgos on the New Mexico House Democrats: A deliberative body that won’t deliberate because of a FEAR. Fear that they will end up with a bad assignment. Fear that their capital outlay will be vetoed. Fear that their bills won’t see the light of day. Maybe, they should balance those fears with fears of [...]

Heath Haussamen looks into the race between Ben Lujan and Ken Martinez: The weekend before House Democrats choose one of the most powerful people in state government will be colored by private phone calls, closed-door meetings, deals and other political wrangling. Lots could happen before Monday’s vote. House members are anxiously awaiting articles about Speaker [...]

Read Julia Goldberg: Dan Frosch’s five-month investigation into Wexford Health Sources reaches a high point today, with our exclusive report that the governor is pulling Wexford’s contract. As of yet, the rest of the media has yet to even talk about Wexford, even when our reporting led the legislature to approve an audit of Wexford [...]

Read Heath Haussamen’s take on how we should spend all that surplus state cash: Tax cuts are good, but the state should also use this money to help those who live in such poverty that they won’t benefit from tax cuts. My wife is a social worker, and she visited two homes in rural Doña [...]