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 New Mexico governor Gary Johnson, a libertarian-leaning Republican, told a New Hampshire paper that the victory by a Republican in the Massachusetts special election is not a mandate for Republicans. “I just see (voters having) a real disgust with those in office,” Johnson told the New Hampshire Union-Leader.
“It isn’t a shift to Republicans. It’s just, ‘Get whoever’s in there out,’” Johnson said.
Johnson’s analysis doesn’t correlate perfectly with Massachusetts; Scott Brown pulled off an upset by beating Massachusetts Attorney General Martha Coakley in a special election for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the death of Sen. Ted Kennedy.
Johnson has been going throughout the nation after setting up a nonprofit called “Our America: The Gary Johnson Initiative.” He will speak to the Republican Liberty Caucus of New Hampshire tomorrow. New Hampshire, political observers have noted, is the site of the first Presidential primaries, held the week after the Iowa caucuses. Some have speculated that Johnson may run for President.
