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.
Many right-leaning blogs are focusing on a quote from an anonymous source familiar with the Richardson pay to play investigation who said, “It’s over. There’s nothing. It was killed in Washington.”
Former Albuquerque mayor Jim Baca wonders how the U.S. Attorney’s Office will respond the news that Richardson’s been cleared. Will it issue an apology, perhaps? Baca doesn’t think so. He frowns on the wasted man hours and money devoted to the investigation, Richardson’s missed opportunity of being part of the Obama administration, and also writes:
Whether you like the Governor or not, this kind of neverending action against someone is horrendous. Countless innuendo reaching the press will now dog the Governor and his staff forever. Just google his name and see what pops up.
Well, that’s exactly what we did (sort of) and here’s some of what we found:
Conservative commentator and author Michelle Malkin has accused Attorney General Eric Holder of being crime-coddling.
Ed Morrisey of Hot Air writes, “What do Bill Richardson and the New Black Panther Party have in common? Both got let off the hook by Attorney General Eric Holder and the Obama Department of Justice.”
The liberal Talking Points Memo seems to be the only national blog to address the issue, in its Muckraker section, where Zach Roth writes, “So, did politics play a role in the decision to quash the probe? It would be a mistake, of course, to put too much weight on the off-the-record word of one anonymous source.”
But other blogs like Daily Kos and Firedoglake have not, as of this time, acknowledged the story. In fact, there hasn’t even been a diary about the story on Daily Kos.
NMI intern Danielle Bauer contributed to this report.
