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.
A Democratic ward chairman has left the fold in Santa Fe to go to work for a Green candidate for the 3rd District Public Regulation Commission, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports. Ward chairman Bernie Logue y Perea of Santa Fe decided to go to work for Green candidate Rick Lass.
Just when you thought the election in New Mexico couldn’t get any more interesting, the corruption trial of a former top Democrat, a former court official and other defendants has been scheduled a week before the Nov. 4 general election, the Albuquerque Journal reports. Former Metro Court administrator Toby Martinez, his wife Sandra Mata Martinez, engineer Raul Parra, former state Sen. Manny Aragon and contractor Michael Murphy are charged with conspiracy to commit mail fraud and money laundering. The trial is scheduled to last six to eight weeks.
Some Billy the Kid enthusiasts have sued current and former Lincoln County lawmen they say are withholding public records about DNA evidence collected during an investigation into events leading up to the Kid’s presumed death in 1881, the Albuquerque Journal reports.
Republican presidential candidate John McCain has pulled ahead of Democratic nominee Barack Obama in San Juan County, the Farmington Daily Times reports. That doesn’t come as a complete surprise since that area of the state is a GOP stronghold.
