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. Department of Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder will be in Albuquerque on Friday to unveil President Obama’s 2009 National Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy.
The two cabinet-level Obama advisers will also be joined by Office of National Drug Control Policy Director Gil Kerlikowske, a.k.a. the border czar.
“Secretary Napolitano will also swear in new members of the Homeland Security Advisory Council (HSAC). Comprised of national security experts from state, local and tribal governments, first responder communities, academia and the private sector, HSAC provides advice and recommendations directly to Secretary Napolitano on homeland security issues,” Napolitano spokeswoman Sara Kuban said in a statement.
Napolitano is an Albuquerque native and Sandia High School graduate. Napolitano served as Arizona’s attorney general and governor before being confirmed as Obama’s secretary of homeland security.
Holder was deputy attorney general during the Clinton administration.
