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.
According to The Associated Press, U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici is riding off into the sunset after serving as New Mexico’s senator for 36 years. When Domenici began serving in 1972, New Mexico only had two congressional districts and the state voted overwhelmingly for Richard Nixon over George McGovern.
Now, after nearly four decades in the U.S. Senate, New Mexico’s senior senator has packed up his Washington, D.C., office and the 76 year-old is handing over the reins to Sen.-elect Tom Udall, a Santa Fe Democrat.
But despite retiring for health reasons, a part of Domenici still wants to keep the job that he held for many years.
“I love the job too much,” Domenici said. “I feel like I’d like to have the job tomorrow and the next day.”
Of course, Domenici also had a temper. Just ask former Republican Party chairman and gubernatorial candidate John Dendahl.
Domenici also was known to have a few ‘candid exchanges’ of his own. One of these came when former state GOP leader John Dendahl and Domenici had a falling-out over Dendahl’s support of former Gov. Gary Johnson’s drug-legalization campaign.
Dendahl said Domenici called him after he made his support for Johnson public and “just about fried my left ear with what was coming out of the phone.”
Domenici served on the powerful Senate Budget committee for 22 years as either the chairman or ranking member. He is perhaps best known for directing billions of dollars towards New Mexico, especially for Los Alamos and Sandia National Laboratories for nuclear research.
