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.
During the Q & A after the announcement of Gov. Bill Richardson’s nomination as U.S. commerce secretary, President-elect Barack Obama took a question from a reporter that many in New Mexico have been wondering: Where’s the beard, governor?
President-elect Barack Obama, not Richardson, decided to field the question.
“I think it was a mistake for him to get rid of it,” the president-elect said with an obviously tickled Richardson looking on. “I thought that whole Western, uh, rugged look was really working for him. For some reason, maybe because it was scratchy when he kissed his wife, he was forced to get rid of it. but we’re deeply disappointed at the loss of the beard.”
The president-elect looked over at Richardson, who looked as if he were about to lose his fight to keep down a big belly laugh. Then the president-elect laughed a little bit.
