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…
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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.
Many of us who watched the high-profile misstep of former UNM president, Louis Caldera, knew he’d land a job pretty quickly after the unfortunate, and ill-conceived NYC flyover that cost him his job at the White House Military Office.
The question was where.
Now we know. Caldera has landed a job at Center for American Progress. As the Albuquerque Journal’s Michael Coleman tells us, the Center “is a self-described “progressive” think tank founded by a former chief of staff to President Bill Clinton” — John Podesta.
Here’s an excerpt from Coleman’s story:
Caldera, also a former U.S. Army secretary, resigned from the White House last month after a spare Air Force One jet buzzed lower Manhattan as part of a White House photo assignment he authorized. The flyover sent thousands of New Yorkers into the street fearing another 9/11-style attack.
Caldera will make a strong addition to Center’s staff, said John Podesta, the organization’s CEO and the former Clinton aide.
“Louis’s extensive background in higher education and national security policy will help strengthen CAP’s expertise on these issue areas, along with our work on immigration reform and economic mobility,” Podesta said in a news release.
“I am delighted to have the opportunity to join this outstanding group of thinkers and doers who are working to improve the lives of all Americans through the development and implementation of progressive policy ideas,” Caldera said in the release.
Caldera has been on leave from the University of New Mexico as a tenured law professor.
