Jeff Bingaman News

Santa Fe Public Libraries will be closed all day Friday and Saturday, July 3rd and 4th.

A year ago when a price was locked in on specialized membranes for the new regional wastewater treatment plant, officials from Ruidoso and Ruidoso Downs celebrated.

Visits with most of New Mexico's Congressional delegation and to Homeland Security and Emergency Management were on the itinerary in Washington, D.C., for the Luna County Sheriff and two of his lieutenants in mid-June. Sheriff Raymond Cobos and Lts.

New Mexico is getting $13 million in federal stimulus money to pay jobless benefits and to administer its unemployment insurance program.

The widening of U.S. Highway 62-180 from two to four lanes between Carlsbad and the New Mexico-Texas state line should be completed in about 18 months, state highway officials said.

The expo held at the Western New Mexico Global Resource Center featured presentations from Las Cruces City Councilor Nathan Small, Silver City Mayor James Marshall, Brendan Miller, NM Economic Development Green Economy Manager and Dara Parker from the Office of US Senator Jeff Bingaman.

This past May, I was at the New Mexico First Town Hall held on the topic "Growing New Mexico's Energy Economy." I think I was the only participant intent on shrinking, not growing, our energy demands, and glad to "Just Say No" to our neighboring states' energy waste.

After discrepancies in communities across New York prompted questions about the accuracy of FEMA's new flood map plans, the Government Accountability Office will look into the matter, U.S. Sen.

In a poll conducted from May 31 thru June 9, 2009 by Harstad Strategic Research for the New Mexico Wildlife Federation , 67% of voters in New Mexico's Second Congressional District reportedly favored modernizing the 1872 Mining Act.

President Barack Obama said the House bill curbing greenhouse-gas emissions that passed by a close vote Friday represents "an extraordinary first step," but said he had doubts about a provision to impose tariffs on goods from countries that don't match U.S. efforts to combat global warming.

Congress authorized a Zuni-Cibola National Historical Park several decades ago, but no such NPS unit ever materialized.

Leadership New Mexico recently announced that four San Juan County residents are recent graduates of its 2009 Leadership New Mexico Local Government Program.

Thursday, June 25, 2009 Sen. Jeff Bingaman will be awarded today by an environmental group for his role in passing a bill in March that protected 2 million acres of wilderness.

New Mexico's senior senator is being honored with an award from The Wilderness Society for his role in passing a public lands bill earlier this year that set aside 2 million acres of wilderness.

This is great news for our state and especially for small and minority-owned businesses here.

The whispers around Washington is that healthcare reform is in trouble. Even liberal blogger Ezra Klein is now scaling back his expectations and characterizing any progress as a good step forward It is one of the paradoxes of the legislative process that something that is substantively quite timid can also be quite bold.

Sen. Bingaman is a key player in the health care reform process because he sits on the two major committees that are drafting legislation -- the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee, chaired by Sen.

Top Story Headlines PD officer shoots and kills man near Cincinnati area Hundreds attend groundbreaking for Spaceport America Hundreds of people gathered in Upham, 25 miles southeast of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico Friday for the groundbreaking ceremony of Spaceport America.

Longtime New Mexico cattle rancher Judy Keeler is keenly aware of how tough it is to raise livestock in the dusty desert near the U.S.-Mexico border.

Luna County is slated to receive close to $2 million from the federal government and the timing couldn't be better.