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The New Mexico Independent going forward

By | 11.16.11

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…

EIB hears more anti-cap-and-trade testimony

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By | 11.10.11

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…

New Mexico’s largest university low in popularity

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By | 11.10.11

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.

“O-ba-ma, O-ba-ma”: Thousands of cheering Germans can’t be wrong

By | 10.13.08 | 10:15 am

So you think New Mexico elections top the nation in oopsie-daisy mishaps? Check out New York’s Rensselaer County. According to The Albany Times Union, county elections officials mailed out hundreds of absentee ballots with this presidential candidate: Barack Osama.

An honest mistake, innocently missed by three proofreaders, simply a typo, said elections officials, apparently failing to note the geographical distance between the “s” and “b” keys.

Yeah, right, said one voter:

”It’s a little suspicious and at least grossly incompetent. If I crossed out the name and wrote in the right spelling my ballot would be invalid.”

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