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.
President Obama will send up to 1,200 National Guard troops to the border and request an additional $500 million in supplemental funding for border security, he told Senate Republicans today.
Fox News quotes an unnamed administration official as saying the National Guard troops would “provide intelligence; surveillance and reconnaissance support; intelligence analysis; immediate support to counternarcotics enforcement; and training capacity until Customs and Border Patrol can recruit and train additional officers and agents to serve on the border.”
In 2006, George W. Bush ordered thousands of National Guard troops to help patrol the border. Earlier this year, Gov. Bill Richardson ordered National Guard troops to the border in New Mexico.
