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.
As former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias continues his impromptu media tour following a document dump and the release of House Judiciary Committee testimony by Karl Rove and Harriet Miers, he told Talking Points Memo that he “feel[s] one hundred percent vindicated.”
Iglesias says that the documents show, despite Rove’s insistence to the contrary, that he was more than just a “conduit” of complaints from state Republican officials to White House officials and the U.S. Department of Justice .
“Conduit, schmonduit,” Iglesias said.
Iglesias also threw barbs at Pat Rogers, (“Rogers would have done their bidding”) and the New Mexico Republicans who accused him of wrongdoing. Meanwhile, he was happier with the Democrats in Congress. “I’m so grateful to [House Judiciary committee chair John] Conyers and his staff for being persevering and getting to the bottom of it,” Iglesias told TPM.
Two names that never appeared in the Talking Points Memo blog post? Heather Wilson or Pete Domenici.
