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.
Yesterday NPR aired a report on the 2nd Congressional District race between Republican Steve Pearce and Democrat Harry Teague. Reporter Linda Wertheimer said the race is “almost a model of midterm elections, asking voters, ‘Do you want the Congress you have now—or the one you had before?’”
Pearce told attendees of a Bluegrass festival that his core values are “faith, family, freedom and service,” adding that he often says, “I’m pro-life, pro-God, pro-gun and pro-family.”
Pearce said he was moved to run for his old seat in the House of Representatives because “I’m afraid for the country.”
Voters are angry and that anger and anxiety will work for him, he said.
Meanwhile Teague is working on persuading individual voters and has been touring the district every weekend. NPR followed Teague on a tour at a farm near Hatch, where he checked in on the progress of the year’s chile crop.
“When we took office last year in January we were losing jobs at over a half million a month. We’re creating jobs now. We’re not creating enough, but we went from losing a half million a month…to having a positive increase,” he said.
