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.
New Mexico might be having a meltdown over Gov. Bill Richardson’s loss of the commerce secretary nomination, but President-elect Barack Obama thinks it’s a joking matter.
Obama’s final words of a 40-minute interview with George Stephanopoulos on the Sunday morning talk-show “This Week” compared the search for a commerce secretary to his family’s search for a pet dog.
Stephanopoulos asked Obama what kind of dog the Obama family was going to get, and Obama rounded up his reply by saying that the decision had been “tougher than finding a commerce secretary.”
STEPHANOPOULOS: What kind of a dog are we getting and when are we getting it?
OBAMA: The — they seem to have narrowed it down to a labradoodle or a Portuguese water hound.
STEPHANOPOULOS: A medium-sized.
OBAMA: Medium-sized dog, and so, we’re now going to start looking at shelters to see when one of those dogs might come up.
STEPHANOPOULOS: So, you’re closing in on it?
OBAMA: We’re closing in on it. This has been tougher than finding a commerce secretary.
