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.
U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-New Mexico, spoke on the Senate floor yesterday in support of the nomination to the Supreme Court of Judge Sonia Sotomayor. Sotomayor is the first selection by President Barack Obama to the Supreme Court and is expected to be confirmed easily, as a number of Republicans have said they will vote for her.
Udall defended Sotomayor’s “empathy,” saying, “I think it would be sad for us to confirm Sonia Sotomayor but allow her empathy to be discredited as a human emotion and judicial asset.”
“She has earned her right to serve on the nation’s highest court and I look forward to supporting her confirmation,” the former New Mexico Attorney General said.
