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.
For our Catholic readers, you probably need no reminder that today is Good Friday and, as such, many pilgrims have made their way on foot to the old adobe santuario in Chimayo. KOB-TV covers the annual pilgrimage here.
KUNM-FM, meanwhile, reports on the two residential rate hikes the state’s largest utility — Public Service Company of New Mexico, or PNM — is asking the Public Regulation Commission to approve. The rate hikes would, if approved, take effect in July and then April of 211o.
Way down south in the tiny border town of Columbus, a new police chief has been hired. Angelo Vega, the former top cop in nearby Mesilla, will head the four person department. The Las Cruces Sun-News reports that Vega will be the seventh Columbus police chief in the last three years.
Circling back north, while the story was published yesterday, the Rio Grande Sun’s account of local Democratic Party politics is certainly worth mentioning. The northern New Mexico newspaper reported that state Sen. Richard Martinez took over the reigns of the Rio Arriba County Democratic Party from his teary-eyed, soon-to-be ex-wife, Theresa Martinez. The story is a nice insight into family politics in el Norte in a post-Emilio Naranjo political world. Here’s an excerpt:
“They told me she wouldn’t run (for chair) on Sunday and asked me to stand for election,” the Española senator said of Theresa’s decision to step aside . He repeatedly refused to identify who “they” were, other than to say individuals in the Party had approached him.
