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.
Mayoral candidate Richard Romero has weighed in on the debate about whether or not the Denny’s robbery and murder was attributable to immigration policies of the police department.
Rather than an issue of immigration, he said, it’s a crime problem.
“They are criminals terrorizing our City and they must be dealt with as criminals,” he said. “This is a crime issue.”
“It’s the Mayor’s job to provide law and order,” Romero continued, “and right now, crime is out of control. The border patrol and immigration customs enforcement — or ICE — are in full operation in our city. We don’t need our police doing the work of federal immigration enforcement. We need our police doing gang intervention work.”
