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.
Rep. Edward Sandoval, D-Albuquerque and chairman of the House Taxation and Revenue committee, twice asked Rep. Janice Arnold-Jones, R-Albuquerque, to not broadcast today’s meeting over the Internet. But Arnold-Jones refused.
Sandoval then said that a legislative committee would review a rule governing videostreaming on Tuesday
House Speaker Ben Lujan, D-Santa Fe, then criticized Arnold-Jones for taking it upon herself to run a live video stream of today’s Tax and Revenue committee at the State Capitol.
“You have been here long enough to know that we have rules,” Lujan said. “It’s just unfortunate and a little surprising that you didn’t have the courtersty to even allow or even visit with the chairman of the committee or with myself or your leadership.”
