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.
1st Congressional District frontrunner Martin Heinrich is outspending his three opponents in the race for the Democratic nomination while Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White has outspent his GOP primary opponent 5 to 1, the Associated Press reports in the Albuquerque Journal.
The Clovis News-Journal reported last night that although it wasn’t a topic on the school board meeting agenda, they expected some discussion of the high school yearbook issue. (Last week several Clovis community groups—and former Lt. Gov. Walter Bradley—were outraged to find profiles of two lesbian couples included in the Clovis High School yearbook’s profiles of student couples.) As of this morning the paper had not posted a follow-up on the school board meeting.
Taking a cue from the recent California court decision upholding the state’s gay marriage law, the Albuquerque Journal asked the candidates in the 1st District Congressional District race about their views on gay marriage. It’s no surprise that both Republicans, Joe Carraro and Darren White, strongly oppose gay marriage. But did you know that Martin Heinrich, the Democrat front-runner, also opposes gay marriage? See the details here.
Santa Fe County and a company may seal a deal as early as today for the construction of movie studio on N.M. 14, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican.
The presidential politicking continues in New Mexico as President Bush and Michelle Obama, wife of the Democratic frontrunner, visit the Land of Enchantment for fundraisers not open to the public, according to the Albuquerque Journal.
Moises Gonzales is friends with gang bangers, a situation that has taught the 18 year old to think on his feet and prepared him for life, according to a profile of the teen in the Santa Fe New Mexican.
