Per the AP, Richardson will employ a simple litmus test for Supreme Court nominees. Maybe it’s more real to say: Richardson will openly employ a litmus test. Because if you think Bush or Clinton or Reagan or Taft were unconcerned with the results of their nominees, then you are a fool.
What will be interesting to [...]
Gov. Richardson has unveiled his high school reform plan for New Mexico. It looks good. It creates a high school “diploma of excellence” for high-achieving students, raises graduation requirements (in MATH!), adds funding for teacher training and AP courses, adds funding for pre-AP courses for kids in underserved areas, and other stuff.
The year of the [...]
There are components of Richardson’s ethics package moving through the Senate right now. Among the proposals:
1. People who do business with the state may not contribute to statewide officials, including the governor;
2. Officials, and their family members, must disclose interests in firms seeking state business;
3. Public officials, their employees, and businsesses may not sell goods [...]
It’s tough to figure out where to file this item–”foreign policy” seems appropriate, but misleading… well, no matter how you categorizee it, I’m very impressed with the move by Gov. Richardson to expand the New Mexican space infrastructure. Briefly: New Mexico has a huge budget surplus coming, and Richardson is making a big push to [...]
Dear Editor,
I paged through this year’s 100 Most Influential Hispanics with great excitement, only to have it turn to disappointment when I saw who had been left out: New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson. I was shocked that Hispanic Business would name Hispanic senators and judges to the list, but overlook the country’s only Hispanic governor, [...]
North Korea, that is.
Gov. Bill Richardson of New Mexico, a United Nations ambassador in the Clinton administration who has long maintained contacts with North Korea, will travel next week to Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital, for talks aimed at persuading the North to give up its nuclear arms program, Mr. Richardson’s office and the Bush administration [...]