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.
SANTA FE — Supporters rallied outside the Roundhouse Monday at noon in support of domestic partnership legislation that would later be heard in committee. A few hours later in the day in the Senate, the bill was tabled — and at least temporarily killed — when Democratic Sen. Bernadette Sanchez took a literal walk on voting in committee, leaving the bill dead on a 5-5 tie.
A wide-ranging coalition of community and political organizations is supporting domestic partnerships legislation on the hopes that the bill can be revived. Those organizations include AFSCME, the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, Americans for Indian Opportunity, Children Youth and Famililes, Equality New Mexico, the Family Law section of the State Bar, Gray Panthers, League of Women Voters of New Mexico, the Human Righs Commission, Lutheran Advocacy Ministry, the Commission on Disability, the New Mexico Pediatric Society, New Mexico Voices for CHildren, the New Mexico Religious Coalition for Reproductive Choice, Pro-Family Pediatricians, Arc of New Mexico, the Disability Coalition of New Mexico and the YWCA of the Rio Grande.
