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.
According to Think Progress, a blog that is a project of the liberal Center for American Progress, Sens. Scott Brown, R-Mass., and Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., will be added to the Senate Armed Services Committee. Brown will be replacing the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., and Bingaman will be added to keep the balance between members of each party.
Brown was a lieutenant colonel in the Massachusetts National Guard.
The blog mentions that a big issue that will be in front of that committee is whether or not to repeal the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy that bars service members from serving in the military while being openly gay.
Bingaman, the blog notes, voted against the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy in 1993.
The positions on the committee were described as “plum” by Talking Points Memo.
