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.
Conservative Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh is “tough as nails” on illegal immigration, a recorded phone message from Republican political strategist Karl Rove is telling thousands of New Mexico voters.
“Don’t be misled by negative ads,” the Albuquerque Journal Wednesday quoted Rove as saying in the recording. “Allen Weh is the right choice.”
Both Rove and Weh, a former state Republic Party chairman, were implicated in the politically-motivated firing of federal prosecutor David Iglesias.
In 2005, then-state party chair Weh expressed dissatisfaction with Iglesias to Rove, stemming from Iglesias’s supposed failure to aggressively pursue cases against democratic lawmakers in New Mexico.
A new poll Wednesday morning showed Susana Martinez developing a dramatic 11-point lead over Weh in the Republican primary race, Joe Monahan reported.
