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.
Sure, there’s been talk of using unmanned aerial drones to monitor the border, but Republican congressional candidate Tom Mullins has found himself in a bit of hot water over offering a proposal to put land mines on the United States – Mexico border.
As the Associated Press on Monday:
In the May 18 interview with KNMX radio in Las Vegas, N.M., Mullins says the U.S. could mine the border, install barbed wire and post signs directing would-be border jumpers to cross legally at designated checkpoints.
He explained Monday it was a suggestion he’d heard while campaigning.
Attention on the border has intensified since the killing of Robert Krentz by what authorities believe was an illegal immigrant.
Mullins will face incumbent Ben Ray Lujan, D-N.M., in the general election in November.
