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.
“Reagan was more pragmatic than those who now quote him,” former U.S. Senator Pete Domenici said in a New York Times story about former Senator Alan K. Simpson.
Here’s the section that mentioned Domenici:
“Reagan was more pragmatic than those who now quote him,” said former Senator Pete V. Domenici of New Mexico, who was chairman of the Senate Budget Committee in the Reagan years. Both Mr. Domenici and Mr. Simpson began their Senate careers among its most conservative Republicans; each left office labeled as a relative moderate in a party that had shifted farther right on economic and social issues. “Those who claim they’re better Republicans than we are — put their solutions in front of us and let’s see if they’re doable,” Mr. Domenici said.
Simpson served with Domenici in the U.S. Senate from 1979 to 1997.
Domenici retired last year from the U.S. Senate after health problems. He was replaced by now-Sen. Tom Udall.
