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.
Allen Weh‘s recent ad slamming his GOP gubernatorial primary candidate Susana Martinez on Hooters, hotels and iPods is “grossly misleading,” according to FactCheck.org, a non-partisan, nonprofit project of the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania.
But the group says “there’s plenty of evidence to find guilt on both sides.”
FactCheck points to a Martinez’ ad that said Weh supported “amnesty” for undocumented immigrants, noting “‘Amnesty’ is an emotion-laden word that does not accurately describe what the bill would have provided, or what Weh was supporting.”
“We can’t recall a time when a candidate’s ad was denounced as misleading and dishonest by the head of his own party,” FactCheck says.
It’s worth reading to see their analysis of the two ads.
