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.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is adding her voice to prominent jurists who say that states should give up the practice of electing judges, reports the Washington Post. “If there’s a reform I would make, it would be that,” the Washington Post quoted Ginsburg saying during a question-and-answer session of the National Association of Women Judges, which is meeting in Washington.
Ginsburg joins former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor in saying that judges shouldn’t be elected. Issues related to candidates running for state judicial posts have gone before the U.S. Supreme Court, and Ginsburg has found herself in the minority. New Mexico is one of several states that elects its judges.
A civil rights pioneer died alone and forgotten in Columbia, S.C., giving her neighbors and the city, which is the capital of South Carolina, pause. The woman, Juanita Goggins, was a civil rights trailblazer, becoming the first African American woman elected to the South Carolina legislature in 1974, the New York Times reports.
Republican Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia is saying that gay state workers would be included under nondiscrimination laws, the Christian Science Monitor reports. The paper used this headline: Republican governor as gay rights defender: a sign of the times?
Glenn Beck last week called on Christians to leave their churches if they pushed social or economic justice, which he said amounted to code words for Communism and Nazism. This week several prominent Christian bloggers are taking Beck on, reports the New York Times. As one example, the Rev. Jim Wallis, longtime leader of the Washington-based liberal Christian antipoverty group Sojourners, told Christians to leave Glenn Beck, the paper writes.
Finally, The New York Times Magazine has named a successor to William Safire. Linguist and lexicographer Ben Zimmer will become the new “On Language” columnist, according to BusinessWire. Safire founded the column in 1979 and wrote its columns until his death last fall.
