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.
Batman was in the Roundhouse.
Or was it Doc Holliday?
Val Kilmer, the actor and possible aspiring New Mexico politician, was seen skulking around the state Capitol on Wednesday.
This reporter only got within 20 feet of the man who would be Jim Morrison before he ducked through a door behind the House of Representatives rostrum that leads to who knows where.
I think another reporter and I were a little too obvious. You know, pads in hand. Goofy grins on our faces. The earnest, quick pace. Kilmer was hanging with House Speaker Ben Lujan. And then he was gone, poof!
Kilmer probably thought I was going to ask him if he’s going to run for governor. Heck, I just wanted to tell him I really enjoyed Real Genius, that vastly underrated 1985 film about a bunch of brilliant geeks who thwart an evil plot to develop some nasty, laser technology.
Lujan said Kilmer had thanked the speaker for his son’s help in getting a pass for the inauguration. The speaker’s son is Democratic U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan.
