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.
Santa Fe Mayor David Coss is the lone New Mexican to join a group of mayors asking President Barack Obama to do more on gun control. As The Huffington Post reported, Coss signed on to a letter sent by New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s group Mayors Against Illegal Guns.
The Huffington Post reports that the letter “comes intriguingly close to assigning blame for ongoing gun violence to the Obama administration.”
In January, Obama’s presidency was given a failing grade from the gun control group the Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence.
Mayors Against Illegal Guns had sent a report to the Obama administration in August 2009 that was a “blueprint for federal action on illegal guns.”
“The time has come for action,” the letter says, citing the fact that “approximately 6,000 Americans have been gunned down in intentional acts of violence” since the blueprint was sent to Obama’s administration.
The letter is embedded below.
