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.
On Thursday night the U.S. House voted 234-194 to add a repeal of the policy that bars openly gay men and women from serving in the military to the defense authorization bill. The vote was nearly all on party lines, with 25 Democrats voting against the repeal and five Republicans voting for the repeal. All three members of Congress from New Mexico, all Democrats, vote for the repeal.
“”Under Don’t ask, Don’t Tell, more than 13,000 men and women in uniform have been discharged from the military,” Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., said in a speech before the vote. “Thousands more have decided not to re-enlist. Fighter pilots, infantry officers, Arabic translators and other specialists have been discharged at a time when our nation is engaged in two wars.”
The repeal would not immediately go into effect. In a deal between the White House and Congress, the repeal would go into effect after a Pentagon review of the policy. That concludes on December 1.
Earlier in the day, the Senate Armed Forces Committee had voted similarly to repeal Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.
