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.
Gallup, New Mexico won’t be scheduling or attending any “trainings, seminars, conferences or meeting located within the state of Arizona,” Gallup City Manager David Pederson said in a letter to Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, dated April 28. The city, about 20 miles from the Arizona border, announced it wouldn’t do any business that required its employees to enter that state because its new immigration law came with the risk of racial profiling by law enforcement.
“I will not subject our municipal employees to the possibility of inappropriate government sanctioned harassment due to their physical appearance or manner of speech,” Pederson said in the letter. “I am at a loss how you will enforce this law without the use of illegal unconstitutional racial profiling.”
Pederson closed the letter by saying there are few occasions in modern life when one is called to make a moral decision, and that he hopes Arizona will reverse the law. A scanned copy of the letter can be seen on Albuquerque KOB-TV reporter Jeremy Jojola’s blog.
