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.
Ex-U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson is headed to Sudan and Kenya “as part of a democracy-building and security mission tomorrow,” the Albuquerque Journal’s Michael Coleman reported.
Coleman also spoke to Wilson about her thoughts on the 2010 gubernatorial run.
“It’s a scandal a day out here, and somebody’s got to clean up this mess,” Wilson told me in a telephone conversation, referring to the rash of public corruption scandals during Gov. Bill Richardson’s tenure. “If the Democrats are telling you the Republicans are in disarray they must be looking in the mirror.”
Coleman pointed out that Wilson has been hit by Democrats over her potential involvement in the David Iglesias firing.
Wilson has not made a decision on whether or not to run for governor. She lost to Steve Pearce in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate last year. Pearce went on to lose to Democrat Tom Udall in the general election.
