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.
“Mr. Richardson has emerged battered but unbeaten after a yearlong federal investigation,” the Times reports today, and “…He has returned to form, political scientists here say. His poll numbers are creeping up, and a national appointment is again a possibility. Everyone in Santa Fe, the capital, is speculating about what he will do next. He has 14 months left as governor and cannot serve another term.”
The story, by the Houston bureau chief of the Times, James C. McKinley Jr., does not mention the Labor Day weekend houseboat accident at Elephant Butte, nor does it give any hint of dark clouds moving in the direction of the Governor’s mansion.
It mentions Richardson’s August trip to Cuba and speculation that he might be appointed special envoy to the communist isle, as well as a recent visit of North Korean diplomats to Santa Fe.
But the end of the story paints the Guv in a light perhaps unfamiliar to some New Mexicans, he appears as a man who merely wants a real life:
He looks forward, he said, to finishing out his term. Then he plans to take some time off to travel the country in a car — driving himself for the first time in years — to fulfill his longtime dream of visiting every major league baseball park.
“I look forward to becoming a normal person,” he said.
