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.
U.S. Attorney Ken Gonzales is promising a comprehensive push to reduce crime in Indian Country.
New Mexico will have three new prosecutors tasked with fighting crime on Indian reservations, Gonzales pledged Tuesday — one more than the two announced Monday by the U.S. Justice Department. The Justice Department announced a $6 million effort to add 33 federal prosecutors nationwide to judicial districts in Indian Country.
Arizona will get five new federal prosecutors for Indian Country, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced earlier this week.
The U.S. Justice Department has agreed to fund the creation of a New Mexico Indian Country Community Prosecution team for the Navajo Nation, to serve as a liaison with tribal and state authorities, Gonzales said.
The New Mexico team will be one of three pilot program teams, with other teams in South Dakota and Wisconsin.
Community-based policing and increasing trust and collaboration between federal and tribal law enforcement officials are among Gonzales’s goals, he said.
Gonzales also plans to increase efforts to stop the looting of archeological sites and Indian graves, and the illegal trafficking of Indian artifacts.
The White House has separately initiated a three-month television ad campaign to confront the methamphetamine abuse epidemic in Indian Country.
