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The New Mexico Independent going forward

By | 11.16.11

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…

EIB hears more anti-cap-and-trade testimony

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By | 11.10.11

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…

New Mexico’s largest university low in popularity

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By | 11.10.11

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.

Iglesias: ‘This confirms my worst nightmares’

By | 08.12.09 | 8:51 am

Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias told Newsweek that the new e-mails released related to the controversial 2006 firings of U.S. Attorneys across the nation, including himself, “There were improper and potentially illegal — as in criminally illegal — reasons for my removal.”


That’s pretty much the same thing Iglesias, once a rising star in the state Republican Party, said to NMI’s Heath Haussamen.

Iglesias also told the magazine that the revelations “confirm[ed] my worst nightmares.”

Iglesias says that the new documents show that Rove was more than a mere “conduit” as he called himself in House Judiciary Committee hearings last month.

Republican Lamar Smith, the ranking Republican member on the Judiciary Committee, however, said that such talk is unfounded. “Despite all evidence to the contrary, House Democrats continue to falsely accuse former Bush administration official Karl Rove of wrongdoing in the dismissal of several U.S. Attorneys,” Smith said in a statement to Newsweek.

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