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.
Those were the words state Sen. Rod Adair, R-Roswell, uttered moments after the New Mexico Senate defeated his motion to amend legislation to repeal the death penalty.
His amendment would have left capital punishment in state law as an option for those capital crimes in which DNA evidence was conclusive — that authorities in fact had the right person.
Adair went on to predict that the Senate likely would pass the repeal by a vote of 22-20, which is similar to the vote count the first time a senator tried to amend the bill. That amendment was sponsored by state Sen. William Sharer, R-Farmington.
Adair, like other senators, have said the vote may be so close that they have predicted it is possible that Lt. Gov. Diane Denish may be called to break a tie vote.
