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.
State Rep. Antonio “Moe” Maestas, D-Albuquerque, outlined a plan for the state of New Mexico to join Los Angeles and other municipalities in a boycott of Arizona over the controversial new immigration law and the banning of ethnic studies classes from state schools.
Maestas said after Arizona banned ethnic studies that it was clear that the law wasn’t about illegal immigration.
“It’s not about illegal immigrants – it’s about Mexicans, whether they are legal or illegal,” Maestas told Clearly New Mexico. “It’s about people from Mexico who are brown and speak with an accent.”
Here is the plan, according to Clearly New Mexico:
- New Mexico should ban official state travel to Arizona
- New Mexico should not enter into any new contracts with Arizona
- New Mexico should move to divest all existing investments with Arizona
- New Mexico’s Tourism Department should run nationally-placed ads that say, “Come to New Mexico – we’re not Arizona”
- New Mexico’s Secretary of Economic Development should aggressively compete for companies currently looking to locate in Arizona
- New Mexico should bar any high school teams from playing in Arizona
- The University of New Mexico Lobo men’s basketball team should scuttle plans to play Arizona State University in Arizona
