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.
A blogging battle over what domestic partner benefits would mean for New Mexico and what it means to be a progressive is one of the hottest topics in the New Mexico blogosphere today.
Albuquerque Journal columnist Jim Scarantino authored a piece published Thursday setting off the battle by claiming that, while he supports the concept of domestic partner benefits, a bill sponsored by Rep. Mimi Stewart, D-Albuquerque, would “deprive others of their right to practice a religious faith that condemns homosexuality.”
Barb Wold of Democracy for New Mexico responded on her blog with a lengthy rebuttal in which she calls Scarantino “another garden-variety extremist bent on twisting the truth into a fiction that supports his prejudices and biases.” Scarantino fired back on the blog New Mexico Liberty, which he runs for the Rio Grande Foundation, in a posting titled “Fascism for New Mexico”, decrying “Democracy for New Mexico’s call to censor me.”
Click here to read Barb responding a second time, and here to read NMI’s Matt Reichbach, on his NMFBIHOP blog, jumping into the fray.
Oh, I’m sorry, you wanted something on GRIPgate instead? OK. Click here for a picture of Gov. Bill Richardson’s newly reborn beard, an apparent child of the controversy that led to him withdrawing his nomination to be commerce secretary earlier this month.
