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.
Former Alaska Senator and Democratic Presidential candidate Mike Gravel has endorsed Republican Adam Kokesh, who is running for Congress in Northern New Mexico, reports the Washington Independent.
Here’s the “barely audible” endorsement.
Kokesh faces an uphill battle in his bid to unseat Congressman Ben Ray Luján. In 2008, Luján won his seat with 57 percent of the vote in a three way race. Republican Dan East got just 30 percent of the vote and independent Carol Miller, challenging from the left, got 15 percent of the vote.
In 2006, then-U.S. Congressman Tom Udall got nearly 75 percent of the vote against Republican Ronald Dolin.
Kokesh does have a bit more money to work with than either East or Dolin — he outraised Luján in the third quarter of 2009.
