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.
A man was arrested Wednesday for threatening the life of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., the FBI announced. The man was apparently angry about health care reform. Yesterday, a man was arrested for making death threats against Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash.
The AP has more on the Pelosi story:
Sources tell the AP that the man, who has not been identified, made dozens of calls to Pelosi’s homes in San Francisco and Washington, as well as to her husband’s office. One official said the suspect is believed to have spoken at least once to Pelosi, a Democrat.
If this is true, it sounds similar to the arrest for the death threats of Murray. In that case, Charles Alan Wilson made “a series of threatening phone calls to the office of Washington’s U.S. Senator Patty Murray.”
Norman Leboon was arrested for threatening House Minority Whip Eric Cantor, R-Va, in March. Leboon threatened a number of public officials, including Pelosi and President Barack Obama, in a series of YouTube videos, the Washington Independent reported.
So far, there have been no threats to any members of New Mexico’s congressional delegation that have been made public.
