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.
This week the Santa Fe Reporter, the city’s liberal-leaning alternative weekly paper, published its endorsements, including Janice Arnold-Jones in the Republican primary for governor, Adam Kokesh over Tom Mullins in the congressional race and Jerry Ortiz y Pino in the Democratic lieutenant governor race.
The Reporter endorsed Arnold-Jones because she has “an established record as an accessible lawmaker: Her successful efforts to force the Senate into webcasting earned her the New Mexico Foundation for Open Government’s 2010 William S Dixon First Amendment Freedom Award.”
The Reporter also said she is the “least polarizing candidate” on a number of issues, though admitted Susana Martinez and Allen Weh are the frontrunners “if polls and dollar signs are the best indicators for such things.”
In the 3rd Congressional District’s Republican primary, the Reporter endorsed Adam Kokesh over Tom Mullins.
“While his campaign hasn’t won him fans in the party base, we find his independent thinking more interesting than that of his opponent,” the Reporter wrote. “Kokesh’s appeal has been across party lines, and his disinterest in pleasing the Republican establishment bodes well for voters who are sick of party ideologues on both sides.”
For Lt. Gov., the Reporter endorsed Jerry Ortiz y Pino in the Democratic primary and Brian Moore in the Republican primary.
For State Land Commissioner, the Reporter endorsed Ray Powell in the Democratic primary and Matt Rush in the Republican primary.
