Government Relations

This fledgling New Year already brings budget recommendations from the Legislative Finance Committee (LFC) and the Department of Finance and Administration (DFA) that will provide baselines for budget talks in the upcoming session of the New Mexico...

Governor Susana Martinez held press events at the University of New Mexico and New Mexico Tech today announcing two proposals to boost the state’s high-tech industry and jobs. At UNM, Gov. Martinez outlined a $7.5 million endowment plan that would ...

The LFC took up the issue of lottery scholarship solvency Tuesday afternoon.  HED Secretary Jose Garcia told the committee there were two separate issues to be considered...

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. ...