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.
President Barack Obama was in Las Vegas, Nevada, today — and while there, he stayed at the Palms Casino Resort, which is owned by a name familiar to New Mexicans — the Maloof family. The Maloofs, who sold their New Mexico beer distributorship last year, also own the NBA’s Sacramento Kings; the basketball-fan-in-chief talked basketball with the Maloofs according to the Albuquerque Journal.
Maloof says that the President phoned the Maloofs in hopes of getting a room at their Palms Hotel & Casino for a quick jaunt to Las Vegas. The family, obviously, jumped at the opportunity and also invited Obama to dinner. He accepted and was scheduled to dine at George Maloof Jr.’s Las Vegas home on Thursday evening.
Kings rookie point guard Tyreke Evans flew to the city to attend the dinner.
The name Maloof is also known in political circles in the state; Phil Maloof ran for Congress in 2000 as a Democrat in a special election to fill the 1st Congressional District seat. Maloof lost to Heather Wilson with 15 percent of the vote going to a Green Party candidate, Bob Anderson.
