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.
An overreaction? Both Cocoposts and Jim Baca think the U.S. Forest Service needs to “chill out” when it comes to the Rainbow Family meeting in the Santa Fe National Forest this week.
Baca writes, “The Forest Service has made sport out of hassling these folks by bringing in law enforcement personnel from all over the country,” while Cocoposts states, “Rest assured that young men with guns in overpowered SUVs are protecting you with near maniacal fervor from people who talk about peace and sleep in the woods.”
Meanwhile, Carter Bundy writes today on my blog that ex-state Rep. Robert Aragon, a member of the state Democratic Party’s central committee, should be removed from that committee because of his support for a Republican congressional candidate.
And blogger Mario Burgos says stricter firearm laws will do nothing to keep guns out of the hands of criminals. He believes criminals, who already have little or no respect for the law, will merely break new gun laws. So, he says, only law-abiding citizens trying to protect themselves will pay the price under new gun-control laws.
Last, Democracy for New Mexico asks today why New Mexico’s members of Congress won’t openly support the repeal of the military’s “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy.
NMI’s Danielle Bauer pretty much wrote this posting.
