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 Associated Press has called the Republican gubernatorial primary for Susana Martinez, the Doña Ana County District Attorney. Martinez won a five-way race to face Democratic candidate Diane Denish, who faced only a write-in opponent in the Democratic primary, in the November election.
Martinez took a lead in early and absentee ballots and only extended her lead over the second-place candidate who conceded just after 9:00 p.m.
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Steele said in a statement, “Congratulations to all the New Mexican Republican candidates who won their primaries, and especially to Susana Martinez, who today becomes the first Hispanic woman nominated for Governor by either of the major parties in the United States. Republicans everywhere can be proud of Martinez’s landmark achievement and the major national significance of her nomination by the Republican Party to be the next Governor of New Mexico.”
As of this writing, Martinez has nearly 50 percent of the votes in the Republican primary, Weh has 31. 3 percent, Doug Turner has 10.8 percent, Pete Domenic has 6.9 percent and Janice Arnold Jones has 2.9 percent.
