Susana Martinez

Female vs. male senators

2013-01-12 00:00:00

As the son of a woman, the husband of a woman and the father of daughters and granddaughters, I celebrate the record number of females who are now United States senators. However, I do see some differences in the way these and other women are treated,...

Rethinking the food vs. fuel debate

2012-08-26 00:00:00

This year's drought, along with recent news reports of the lowest corn yield in 17 years, has rekindled the food vs. fuel debate — and, for good reasons. When Congress passed the Energy Independence and Security Act in 2007, an ambitious schedule...

Howard County represented at RNC in Tampa, DNC in Charlotte

2012-09-11 15:45:00

The Republican National Convention and the Democratic National Convention can inspire people watching the speeches from home. But the people most moved are likely to be those sitting in the convention hall: the party loyalists and campaign volunteers...

States of Aggression: Producers Play Off the Competition for Best Deals

2013-05-17 08:30:04

As the variety of tax incentive programs has grown, one thing is increasingly getting cut: the middleman. Companies that buy tax credits from producers are increasingly working with those producers directly, rather than going through a broker. That...

High court hears back pay arguments

2013-05-16 06:14:01

A long-standing dispute between the Governor's Office and state employee unions over back pay and raises -- which Gov. Susana Martinez says has a price tag of $23 million -- was aired Wednesday in the state Supreme Court. State workers jammed the...

Tax bill report ahead of vote was faulty

2013-05-16 00:00:00

Gov. Susana Martinez's finance chief admitted to legislators this week that on the last day of this year's legislative session, he gave the state House of Representatives some inaccurate fiscal-impact figures on the controversial tax bill that zipped...

EDITORIAL: A smoother ride for the spaceport

2013-05-12 00:00:00

Building Spaceport America in Southern New Mexico always was a risk. After all, no one knew whether businesses would flock to the spaceport after it opened -- and that was after spending $209 million in taxpayer dollars to get it built. An empty...

EDITORIAL: Work now, politics later

2013-05-09 09:04:01

Please, spare us. 2016 is a world away. It does no good to spend hours of time and gallons of ink discussing whether Hillary Clinton is going to run for president as the Democratic nominee in 2016. In fact, discussions and focus on the horse race of...

EDITORIAL: Spaceport: New tenant recruited

2013-05-11 00:24:03

Spaceport America is located north of Las Cruces, and is expected to provide a good economic boost to this entire area. Spaceport officials and those from Virgin Galactic had said failure to pass the bill a year earlier had hampered recruitment of other...

Otero County commission on list of delinquent entities for turning in a late audit report.

2013-05-10 07:34:02

The Otero County Commission was recently put on a list of delinquent entities for lack of accountability due to turning in a late audit report this year. According to New Mexico State Auditor Hector Balderas, 59 entities in the state that spend or...

EDITORIAL: Positive step: SpaceX moves to spaceport

2013-05-09 00:34:02

Among the advantages of Spaceport America cited by Gwynne Shotwell, COO and president of SpaceX, in announcing a three-year agreement to lease facilities at the spaceport, were the "physical and regulatory landscape needed ..." That regulatory landscape...

Lawyer: Inspectors clear N.M. horse slaughterhouse

2013-05-03 01:05:22

ROSWELL, N.M. (AP) - About 5 miles from this southeastern New Mexico town's famed UFO museum, tucked between dairy farms, is a nondescript metal building that could be home to any number of small agricultural businesses. But Valley Meat Co. is no longer...

New Mexico Governor Susana Martinez speaks on the third day of the Republican National Convention at the Tampa Bay Times Forum in Tampa, Fla.

2012-08-29 00:00:00