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.
The first skirmish of the Republican gubernatorial race went to Susana Martinez, as Martinez took a plurality of early and absentee ballots in Bernalillo County, the state’s most populous county. Martinez took 46.71 percent, while Allen Weh took 35.49 percent. The other three candidates were all below 10 percent.
In a statement, as reported on The Independent live blog, Martinez’s campaign said, “The early returns are coming in as we expected and we remain cautiously optimistic.”
Things are still early — and much can change — but Martinez took the first battle.
Doug Turner had 9.92 percent of the early and absentee votes, Pete Domenici Jr. had 4.89 percent and Janice Arnold Jones had 2.99 percent of the early and absentee votes.
In the Democratic Lt. Gov. primary, Brian Colón took a narrow lead in early and absentee ballots in the state’s most populous county over Lawrence Rael – 32.15 percent to 30.30 percent.
On the Republican side, Kent Cravens and John Sanchez were in a very close race, which Cravens leading Sanchez 42.56 percent to 41.67 percent in Bernalillo County.
