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 coalition of civil rights groups including the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF), the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) say they will announce Thursday in Phoenix that they will challenge Arizona’s recent anti-immigration law, which they say will allow police to “question people about their immigration status during everyday police encounters and criminalizes immigrants for failing to carry their ‘papers.’
The same coalition 15 years ago was successful in challenging Proposition 187, a California ballot-initiative that required proof of legal status for access to public services including schools. It was struck down as unconstitutional.
