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.
Ron Paul, a Republican candidate for President in 2008, said in a recent interview that he has not yet decided whether he will run again in 2012, but that he thinks former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson would be a pretty good candidate.
“I guess the best one would be Johnson from New Mexico — Gary Johnson,” Ron Paul said in an interview with the conservative news website The Daily Caller.
David Boaz, the executive vice president of the libertarian Cato Institute, which has donated money to the New Mexico-based think tank the Rio Grande Foundation, was not very high on Johnson’s chances.
Boaz said, “Gary Johnson has a great libertarian record, but he doesn’t yet have much national recognition.”
Boaz floated the names of governors Mitch Daniels, R-Ind., and Chris Christie, R-N.J.
