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.
Ben Lujan, speaker of the New Mexico House of Representatives, had a lot of praise for new President Barack Obama in a speech this afternoon, and he also spoke about the state’s economic situation and the need for ethics reform.
Lujan devoted a great deal of his speech, which he gave shortly after being re-elected speaker on a party-line vote, to repeating lines from the inaugural address Obama gave earlier today and praising the president’s policy proposals. Lujan’s re-election to the speaker position was expected.
In his speech, Lujan also highlighted the state’s struggling economy, but he said the state is “not affected in the same degree as other parts in the country.”
Still, Lujan said, the Legislature “must be prudent and fiscally responsible while being cognizant that we are working in a very fragile circumstance.”
Referring only briefly to the cloud of controversy that is currently hanging over the Richardson administration and Santa Fe, Lujan said he looks forward to working with the governor, attorney general and others “to strengthen our resolve” in the area of ethics.
“Trust and confidence and integrity are the cornerstones… of our democracy,” Lujan said.
