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.
Congressman Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., was on New Mexico news station KRQE about health care reform this morning, saying he believes the bill has been improved after the August recess. “One of the biggest improvements to the bill, and what we’ve actually helped do, is we’ve decreased the cost,” Lujan said.
“If voting for the status quo is what they want to do,” Lujan said, referring to Republicans (none of which currently support a health care reform bill), “that just goes to show that they’re out of touch with the American people.”
On Afghanistan, Lujan said it was “unfortunate” that former Vice President Dick Cheney came out so strongly against Obama’s action in Afghanistan. Lujan referenced the George W. Bush administration rationale for going to war in Iraq, saying, “They took us into war Iraq saying there were weapons of mass destruction and we found out that there were not.”
