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Call it ERB boot camp. Legislators on the House and Senate education committees got a comprehensive briefing on education pensions and solvency issues at this morning's joint session. What we didnt hear was debate on any of the pension solvency ...

The House is working today, scheduling a 10 a.m. floor session. The Senate will reconvene again on Monday at 11 a.m. However, Senate Education will meet in joint session with House Education at 8 a.m. on Friday to learn about the ERB solvency proposal. ...

Patricia Roybal Caballero isn't the average graduate student looking to defend her thesis this spring. She's also looking out for the constituents of District 13 on Albuquerque's west side in the New Mexico House of Representatives. Roybal Caballero ...

Steven Block, music department chair; Sheilah Garcia, Leslie Umphrey, director, opera theatre; Sam Shepperson, opera faculty; and UNM College of Fine Arts Dean Kymberly Pinder acknowledge and celebrate Garcia's generous gift to the UNM opera ...

This week on New Mexico in Focus, supporters of Spaceport America say they have struck a deal that will protect companies working at the Southern New Mexico facility from frivolous lawsuits. The move could pave the way for more development at the ...

The 19th United States Poet Laureate, Natasha Trethewey, will deliver the keynote address at the 15th Annual Taos Summer Writer's Conference, Sunday, July 14, 8 p.m., at the Sagebrush Inn Conference Center, 1508 Paseo Del Pueblo Sur. In ...

The solvency proposal for education retirement that was crafted over many months by Education Retirement Board stakeholder groups has passed its first committee hearing of the 2013 legislative session by a 5-4 vote.HB 64, sponsored by Rep. Mimi Stewart ...

Pension solvency will be on committee agendas for the next several days:House Labor will hear H 64, Rep. Stewart's ERB stakeholder proposal - Thursday, Jan. 24, at 1:30 p.m. in Rm. 305.House Education and Senate Education will jointly hear ERB and PERA ...

The University of New Mexico's Office of Career Services hosts Career Expo 2013 on Tuesday, Feb. 5 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. in the Student Union ballrooms.The UNM Career Expo is designed to facilitate the recruitment of the best and the brightest that New ...

The UNM Foundation will host a Grantsmanship Training Program in Albuquerque, Feb. 25 - March 1. The intensive, five-day, hands-on workshop for nonprofit and government grant-seekers will take participants step by step through all stages of planning ...