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.
Washington D.C. journalists have been analyzing the fallout of the surprising victory by Ron Paul, R-Texas, in a conservative straw poll held this weekend. Paul easily outdistanced his second-place competitor, Mitt Romney, R-Mass., and the rest of the conservative field.
Many see former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson, R-N.M., as a natural successor to the Paul legacy; however, Atlantic reporter Marc Ambinder sees the movement as more about Ron Paul than others who follow Paul’s values.
In a blog post about how the Tea Partiers relate to Ron Paul, Sarah Palin and the GOP establishment, Ambinder writes:
Ron Paul is really the only libertarian with street cred. (Gary Johnson, the former New Mexico governor? He gets the issues but doesn’t speak the language well.)
Johnson has launched his Our America Initiative and even unveiled an economic plan in an apparent step toward a 2012 presidential run.
