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.
It isn’t just former GOP Congresswoman Heather Wilson who has her name getting put through the press for the wrong reasons. Former state Republican Party chairman Allen Weh has his name in the David Iglesias firing case, the one that state Republicans wish would just go away.
From TPM Muckraker:
According to the transcript of the interview, Rove said that his top aide, Scott Jennings, was “freelancing” in trying to get David Iglesias fired in the summer of 2005. Rove told his interviewers that Jennings “had strong feelings about Iglesias” after having done political work in New Mexico.
But the documents show that Rove was aware of Jennings’s discussions with Allen Weh, the New Mexico GOOP [sic] chair, on the subject of firing Igesias. Indeed, when Rove got an email from Weh on the subject, in August 2005, he ordered Jennings to bring up the issue with the White House counsel’s office.
Transcripts of George W. Bush senior advisor Karl Rove and former White House Deputy Chief of Staff Harriet Miers interviews were released yesterday by the House Judiciary Committee.
