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.
The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) responded to the news that Republican ex-Congressman Steve Pearce is going to challenge Democratic Congressman Harry Teague in next year’s 2nd Congressional District rematch between the two southern New Mexico oil men.
The DCCC pushed back on some of Pearce’s attacks on Teague’s fiscal record.
“With his reckless fiscal leadership having helped create the problem, Steve Pearce’s rhetoric about fighting for New Mexico families just doesn’t match up with reality,” Andy Stone, Western Regional Press Secretary for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, is quoted as saying in a statement. “Pearce’s record is dripping with the kind of hypocrisy that New Mexicans rejected in the last election.”
The DCCC said that votes by Pearce for policies advocated by former President George W. Bush “created the economic crisis, growing the federal debt by $2.3 trillion from $3.5 trillion to $5.8 trillion.”
