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.
In a gut-wrenching cover story titled “Everyone Knew,” Santa Fe Reporter staff writer Corey Pein details the years of missed warning signs that foretold, and perhaps could have prevented the night in late May when police say Marino Leyba, Jr. shot his pregnant 17-year-old girlfriend and her father.
“The Lovatos’ murder was heralded by more red flags than the Beijing Olympics,” Pein writes.
Leyba had previously threatened to kill another young lover. And his parents’ marriage was marked by alcoholism, domestic violence and possibly sexual abuse. In fact, Pein writes, “Dozens of cops, lawyers, judges, social workers, teachers, friends and family knew Reno was a troubled kid from a home where terrifying things happened as predictably as birthdays. They knew, from experience, that abuse follows families like a shadow. They knew Reno had a gun.”
