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 Secretary Janet Napolitano received a warm, New Mexico welcome Friday. Napolitano grew up in Albuquerque and went to school here.
During a formal meeting of the newly impaneled Homeland Security Advisory Council, which will give feedback to the Department of Homeland Security, Napolitano told a crowd at University of New Mexico how much she enjoyed returning to the Land of Enchantment.
“For those of you in the audience, I am a Sandia High graduate,” Napolitano told a crowd of a couple hundred people.
Cheers erupted and a couple of people whooped.
Napolitano chuckled.
Lt. Gov. Diane Denish said how great she felt that Napolitano was heading up the Homeland Security department, and by extension addressing issues involving the border.
“She understands the issues,” Denish said.
