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.
Former Rio Rancho Mayor Kevin Jackson is in trouble with the law and has landed himself in a Pennsylvania jail, according to the Albuquerque Journal blog.
Jackson is in a Pennsylvania prison charged with violating a protection from abuse order filed by his wife. The former mayor was being held Monday at the Erie County Prison, in lieu of a $20,000 cash-only bond.
Charges against him include violating a protection-from-abuse order, burglary, criminal trespass and carrying a firearm without a license, according to a Pennsylvania State Police report.
The police report says Jackson pointed a semi-automatic pistol at his wife’s face “in an attempt to communicate and reconcile the relationship.” Jackson had entered the house through a basement window.
Jackson landed in hot water as mayor of Rio Rancho for numerous ethics problems. He was eventually forced to resign from the position in 2007, a little more than a year after taking office when allegations of misusing a city credit card and check fraud surfaced.
