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.
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tom Udall used his two minutes as a speaker at the Democratic National Convention (DNC)tonight to try to link GOP presidential candidate John McCain and Udall’sRepublican Senate opponent, Steve Pearce, to President Bush.
Udall said Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama will win New Mexico because, “in the West, we know Washington is broken and Barack Obama is the change we need. It’s bad enough that John McCain and my opponent, Steve Pearce, have supported every one of George Bush’s special-interest economic policies.”
Udall continued by saying that Bush has set a number of records during his presidency, including record prices for gas, food and college tuition. He said McCain and Pearce want to “try to set new records in middle-class misery.”
Udall used his last few seconds to promote a Web site his campaign started — MiddleClassSqueeze.com — which includes a calculator the Udall campaign says tells people how much their food, gas, health-insurance and prescription-drug costs have increased during the Bush presidency.
Udall was one of a handful of Democratic U.S. Senate candidates given the opportunity to briefly address the convention this evening.
