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.
Republican U.S. Senate candidate Steve Pearce is out with a new TV ad that aims to use the current financial crisis to convince voters that his Democratic opponent Tom Udall is “too liberal” and “too risky.”
Here’s the 30-second ad:
“Financial markets in crisis. Millions of jobs at risk. The greatest economic challenge of our lifetime,” the ad’s narrator states. “Tom Udall’s plan: higher taxes on families. Tom Udall voted to raise taxes 64 times, and his tax-increase plan would send our economy into a tailspin, destroy jobs, wipe out retirement savings, shatter dreams.”
I’ve sought comment from the Udall campaign. If I get one, you’ll read it here.