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.
Matthew Rush won the Republican nomination for state land commissioner on Tuesday according to unofficial results. Rush defeated Bob Cornelius in a two-way race for the post, the only statewide post currently held by a Republican.
As of the latest, unofficial, numbers from the secretary of state’s website, Rush has 66.2 percent of the vote to Cornelius’ 33.8 percent.
Incumbent Pat Lyons, term-limited out of office, won the Republican primary for Public Regulation Commission District 2 over Robert Corn.
“I think it is time for us to get some new blood into politics in New Mexico and I think it is time for us, in my generation, to start standing up and taking responsibility for our state,” Rush told the Associated Press in an interview.
