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 significant violence occurring in Mexico in recent years is due to fighting among drug cartels, New Mexico Sen. Jeff Bingaman said to radio reporters yesterday, and one solution is to stop weapons and cash going from the U.S. into Mexico.
The remarks came during questioning about President Obama’s plan to send 1200 National Guard troops to the U.S./Mexico border to assist the border patrol. Bingaman said the problem of violence on the New Mexico side of the border had diminished in recent years, which doesn’t warrant many of those troops being stationed in New Mexico. Most will go to Arizona or California, he speculated.
“Part of the solution is to get better control of our U.S./Mexico border, with traffic going both ways, so that we don’t have large amounts of weaponry going into Mexico, we don’t have large amounts of cash going into Mexico undetected, which has been the case for many years,” Bingaman said.
