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 the Huffington Post, Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., is one of the smartest U.S. Senators. He joins Yale graduate Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., Rhodes scholar Richard Lugar, R-Ind., and six others on the list.
Huffington Post wrote of Bingaman:
The long-time senator from New Mexico — he first got elected in 1983 — is one of the most low-keyed leaders in the Senate — more a work-horse than a show-horse. Bingaman hails from a family of educators, hence his interest in education policy. He was one of two senators on the National Education Goals Panel and has sponsored bills to discourage students from dropping out. Like Lugar, he was given the Distinguished Eagle Scout Award. He graduated from Harvard and attended Stanford Law School.
If Huffington Post had done a similar list for hte House two years ago, then-Rep. Heather Wilson might have made the list. Like Lugar, Wilson was a Rhodes scholar before winning election to Congress.
