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.
Gov. Bill Richardson has some words for Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White: Don’t politicize the repeal of the death penalty.
“We don’t do legislation in New Mexico by referendum,” Richardson, a Democrat, said during a mid-day news conference at the Capitol today. “The New Mexico public wants us to repeal the death penalty.”
White, a Republican, has said he is looking into the possibility of petitioning to put the repeal of New Mexico’s death penalty before the voters. It would be a form of a “reverse referendum” after Richardson signed a law that replaces lethal injection with life in prison without possibility of parole. The new law will apply to crimes committed as of July 1.
