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.
The Democratic polling firm Public Policy Polling (PPP) has an online poll asking readers which district the firm should poll next. Two of the options are New Mexico’s 1st and 2nd Congressional Districts.
Here are the descriptions of the districts by PPP:
NM-2: Harry Teague won last year when Steve Pearce unsuccessfully tried for the Senate…will Pearce be able to take his old seat back?NM-1: Martin Heinrich won by a pretty solid margin last year, but will it hold up without Barack Obama on the ballot?
The only announced candidate running against Heinrich Republican Jon Barela.
While PPP is a left-leaning firm, it does have a great track record, especially the 2009 races — except for New York’s 23rd Congressional District, where PPP admitted it “made a poor judgment call by not just killing it when [Republican candidate Dede] Scozzafava dropped out and then endorsed [Democratic candidate Bill] Owens.”
