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.
GOP congressional candidate Tom Mullins probably prayed for publicity in his campaign—but not this kind. After some off-the-cuff remarks on a Las Vegas, N.M. radio show about using land mines to defend the U.S.-Mexico border, Mullins has gotten plenty of bad press, but on Tuesday night he was skewered as a runner up for MSNBC talking head Keith Olbermann’s “Worst person in the world” feature:
Mullins didn’t win; the liberal talk show host gave Tuesday’s award to, well God—or Mother Nature—whoever/whatever was responsible for a bolt of lightning that struck a giant statue of Jesus in Monroe, La., causing it to burn to the ground in about five minutes.
On Tuesday night Mullins reiterated to KOB-TV that he didn’t seriously want to put land mines on the border, but that he was just repeating an idea someone else had suggested to him on the campaign trail.
