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.
A Las Cruces man who stepped into controversy last week by flying a flag with a drawn-on swastika above an upside down American flag took the flags down. But now, they are back up, this time with the American flag right-side up. And the story gets weirder. The Las Cruces Sun-News reported Saturday that Ken Triplett, the man flying the flags in protest of ‘communism,’ has no records of being in the Army special forces as he claimed when initially asked by media about the controversial flag. As reporter Ashley Meeks wrote:
Triplett, 54, told the Sun-News he’d seen combat from 2003-2006 as a Special Forces sergeant, but there’s “nothing that we can link that individual to our organization,” said U.S. Army Special Forces Command Public Affairs Officer Maj. Emanuel Ortiz Cruz.
And now, from Meeks’ Twitter account, we get a tantalizing hint that there may be more to this baffling story:
Neighbors say the Nazi flag is back up on Reynolds Drive — over the American flag. That’s not where the new details end, though…
Triplett had told the paper that he would take down the flags down after talking to “a politician,” it is not clear if that happened or not.
