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.
Talk about Gov. Bill Richardson’s commerce secretary snafu and the ongoing federal investigation continues to spread virally on the Internet. Today Jay Miller has a column in which he writes, “Despite being damaged, Richardson will still want to control but (Lt. Gov. Diane) Denish and others may want to establish some distance from him.”
Meanwhile, Jose Z. Garcia writes on his blog that Richardson “has lost the capacity to control, once his strongest asset.” He says Richardson “started losing touch with New Mexicans when he decided to run for President two years ago and lost interest in local affairs,” and the “humiliating withdrawal from the Commerce job under the withering glare of the U.S. Attorney’s office … has made closeness to Richardson a net drag, not an asset.”
NMI’s Matt Reichbach has on his own blog a partial transcript of Richardson’s Monday press conference, and it’s an interesting read. And The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Steve Terrell loads up his blog this morning with several interesting links related to the situation.
