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.
Gov. Bill Richardson thinks that Barack Obama’s first nominee for Supreme Court — Judge Sonia Sotomayor — is an “excellent choice.”
“Her life experienced combined with her legal intellect should make Judge Sotomayor an outstanding member of the Court,” Richardson said in a statement. “President Obama should be commended for combining diversity and impeccable legal credentials in his selection.”
The governor continued: “The President made an excellent choice in picking Judge Sotomayor, making her the first Hispanic Justice on the US Supreme Court,” said Richardson.
But would she be the first Hispanic US Supreme Court Justice? Some Talking Points Memo readers say no, that Benjamin Cardozo was the first Hispanic to sit on the country’s highest court — in the 1930s.
