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.
President-elect Barack Obama is asking all U.S. attorneys to stay in their positions for the time being. That seems to take the edge off the question — for now at least — of who will replace Greg Fouratt, the U.S. attorney at the helm of an investigation focused on practices within the Richardson administration.
The president-elect is not asking for the wholesale resignations of Bush appointees, CNN reports.
The TV news network continues:
The handling of U.S. Attorney departures is politically sensitive, after grumbling caused by the immediate firing of all but one U.S. Attorney by President Clinton when he assumed office, and outright anger over the firing of nine U.S. attorneys by the Bush Administration two years ago for what were widely viewed as politically-motivated dismissals.
Career Justice attorney Ken Melson, who was appointed by the Bush Administration to the political post of Director of the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, will remain at least temporarily in the job which coordinates policies for all U.S. Attorney offices.
The move is an interesting one by the president-elect. On first blush, it allows media to distinguish his policy versus his predecessor, President Bush, whose Department of Justice (DOJ) has had a rocky few years, to say the least, especially regarding allegations of politicization at the agency. Is it that Obama is deliberately working to appear as a uniter, and not a divider?
