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.
Politico, the online repository of everything political in the nation’s capital, published a story Tuesday that captures a cultural moment in the lives of America’s elected officials.
And that revelation is this: If you’re an elected official, get ready for inquiries as to your whereabouts thanks to South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford.
Sanford, as you recall, famously, or rather infamously, misled his state by leading his staff to believe he was hiking the Appalachian Trail when, in point of fact, he was in Argentina with his mistress.
Here’s an excerpt:
Already, 40 of Sanford’s gubernatorial colleagues have been subjected to a recent Associated Press survey of their schedules. The New York Times revisited the vagaries of the travel habits of New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, an independent, and New Jersey Democratic Gov. Jon Corzine.
Democratic National Committee Chairman Tim Kaine, who is also the governor of Virginia, has had to explain in more detail the particulars of his own unique arrangement — and is currently fending off demands that he release his entire schedule.
When the AP called Gov. Bill Richardson’s office, his staff told the news service he was in the office but wouldn’t release his calendar, the wire service reported. Local blogger and radio news reporter Peter St. Cyr got similar treatment a few days later.
Thanks to the governor’s office, which published his public schedule this week, we know the guv is in Los Angeles today meeting with TV executives and producers.
We just don’t know who the executives are, or the subject of their discussions.
