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.
According to Chris Cillizza, a political reporter and blogger for the Washington Post, Harry Teague’s 2nd Congressional District seat is the fourth most likely to change hands after the election next November. Of the five seats listed, three are held by Democrats and two by Republicans.
Teague, a Democrat from Hobbs, defeated Republican Ed Tinsley last year in a race for an open seat. Previous seatholder Steve Pearce, R-Hobbs, had left to run for Senate.
Cillizza writes:
Not only did Rep. Harry Teague (D) inexplicably vote in favor of the Obama administration’s cap-and-trade energy bill earlier this year (his southern New Mexico district is filled with oil and gas companies), but he has also drawn his toughest possible opponent — former congressman Steve Pearce (R) — as he prepares to seek a second term in 2010. Not good.
This is not the sort of top-five list Teague hopes to be on.
