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.
New Mexico passed a law in 2009 limiting political contributions, becoming one of the last states in the country to abandon the days of candidates accepting cash or checks whose denominations often came with several zeros.
The law’s passage made big, big news in New Mexico, partially because getting enough votes in the Legislature required a multi-year effort to overcome serious resistance.
But as the Wall Street Journal reminded us in a story posted over the weekend, the old days aren’t quite dead and gone. New Mexico’s new law limiting campaign contributions takes effect Nov. 3, the day after this year’s general election, a detail at the center of the paper’s profile of the state’s gubernatorial race.
Of course the effective date of the new law is not news to many who follow campaign finance reform here in the state. It’s just nice now and then to be reminded. And to know that the rest of the world is on the fact that in New Mexico the wide, open days of fundraising are still with us.
