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 Senate gallery was packed Tuesday for a hearing on SB 183, New Mexico’s domestic partnership bill. We talked to some members of the audience who came to Santa Fe to watch the hearing.
Opponent: “I have a son who is in a domestic partnership relationship and I, as a parent, feel that I have to stand, because when I go before my God I have to say ‘I did what I could.’”
Supporter: “We believe in the inherent worth and dignity of everybody.”
Opponent: “I think marriage is a God ordained thing and there’s no reason to change that.”
Supporter: “I have four children, three have the basic rights and one does not.”
Opponent: “Firm believer of God ordaining marriage between one man and one woman.”
Supporter: “I pay taxes and I’m a law abiding citizen and I deserve equal rights.”
Opponent: “I think it’s better to just have a man and woman because that’s just the way it’s actually supposed to be.”
