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The Legislative Finance Committee has begun a long week of hearings in Santa Fe, which will be the committee’s last meeting of the year and the run up to the LFC budget recommendations expected in early January. 

The highest priority for the University of New Mexico during the 2014 New Mexico legislative session is a funding formula that rewards higher student graduation rates and takes the specific educational mission of the university into account. University

Legislative Finance Committee (LFC) chair Rep. Lucky Varela (D-Santa Fe) shared his vision for higher education funding, which features fairness and winners across the board rather than winners and losers.  During a lengthy discussion about lottery...

The annual payment New Mexico receives from the tobacco settlement agreement is likely to be reduced by nearly half - anywhere from $12 million to $24 million – in 2014, thanks to...

The Associated Students of the University of New Mexico hosted a summit recently to discuss the New Mexico Legislative Lottery Scholarship. It brought stakeholders together with the experts on education, the lottery ...

Refreshed from yesterday’s tour of Sandia National Labs, the Science, Technology and Telecommunications interim legislative committee was back at work this morning in the Rotunda of the UNM Science and Tech Park.   UNM Associate Vice President for Re

The interim legislative Science, Technology and Telecommunications Committee convened this morning in the Rotunda of UNM’s Science & Tech Park on South Campus for two days of mostly university presentations sandwiching a tour of Sandia National Labs. ...

The NM Legislature worked straight through with interim committees meeting monthly, often away from the Roundhouse.  Several of those committees convened at UNM.   Today, the Tobacco Settlement Revenue Oversight Committee met at the UNM Cancer Center, ...

Continuing our review of House action, NM Representatives passed the severance tax bond bill, SB 60, by a vote of 66 - 0. UNM has more than $10 million in projects in that bill. It now goes to the Governor. This morning House Appropriations gave a do ...

Here are pertinent bills coming up on the floors of the House and Senate today, which promises to be another long one. Short version: most of the action will be in the House, where the budget awaits concurrence, STBs await approval, PERA pension in on ...