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.
U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich, D-Albuquerque, contributed a letter about our 16th president, Abraham Lincoln, to a time capsule that will be opened on the 250th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth, according to a story in Roll Call.
February 12 of this year was the 200th anniversary of Lincoln’s birth.
Lincoln served just one term in the U.S. House before becoming President (though he was elected President more than a decade after serving in Congress), and members of Congress were asked to contribute to the time capsule by the U.S. Capitol Historical Society. Students were also asked to contribute.
Heinrich was “among the first Members to submit a reflection on the 16th president” and he “used his essay to bring Lincoln home.”:
“During the Civil War, my state served as an important gateway to the West,” he wrote. “While New Mexico found itself in a struggle against the pro-confederacy southern neighbor, under the leadership of President Lincoln we emerged a pro-union territory. Following his tragic death, New Mexicans chose to honor their fallen President by naming a large territory in his name. At the time, Lincoln County was greater in size than the states of Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Vermont combined.”
