I am writing today to announce the closure of the New Mexico Independent. After three and a half years of operation in New Mexico, the board of the American Independent News Network, has decided to shift publication of its news…
While environmental activists played their part yesterday during demonstrations at the capitol building, going so far as to dress up as solar panels and to sing the tune of “You Are My Sunshine,” their counterparts, the anti-cap-and-trade contingency who has…
Roughly one quarter of University of New Mexico students are unimpressed with the state’s flagship public school, according to a survey that questioned college students about their higher education experiences.
It is something that Republicans, including a number of those in New Mexico, wish would just go away. According to Public Record writer Jason Leopold, a grand jury has issued subpoenas in a probe into the firing of U.S. attorneys.
In late September, the U.S. Attorney General appointed Nora Dannehy as a special prosecutor looking into the case.
According to Leopold, “It is believed that the subpoenas Dannehy sought are to obtain documents and e-mails and to compel testimony from former White House officials who played a role in the firings.”
Former New Mexico U.S. Attorney David Iglesias spoke to Leopold.
“The basic questions haven’t been answered,” Iglesias said. “What are the real reasons the nine of us were forced out? I believe that information will be contained in the testimony of Karl Rove and [former White House Counsel] Harriet Miers and it is my hope that Congress will continue to pursue their testimonies so we can have answers. It’s been two years and we still don’t know.”
There have been a number of reasons given for the dismissal of Iglesias, from being an “absentee landlord” to a perceived failure by Iglesias to prosecute voter-fraud cases.
But as the New Mexico Independent noted in September, Iglesias was singled out for praise for how he handled voter-fraud cases, according to a Department of Justice report into the U.S. attorney firings.
The same report mentioned a number of New Mexico Republicans, including retiring Sen. Pete Domenici, lame-duck Rep. Heather Wilson, who left her congressional seat to attempt to win a spot in the Senate, and prominent attorney Pat Rogers.
