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…
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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.
Sunland Park will be the site of Hillary Clinton’s Saturday rally for Barack Obama in southern New Mexico, the campaign announced Tuesday night in a news release.
The release stated that additional details will be announced at a later time.
The city is some 40 miles south of Las Cruces, so Clinton will avoid being in the same metropolitan area as John McCain, who is holding a rally on Saturday in Mesilla.
A local McCain staffer told the Las Cruces Sun-News that the Mesilla rally will begin at 3:30 p.m.
In 2007, the U.S. Census Bureau estimated that Sunland Park had a population of 14,225 people. It is 96 percent Hispanic, and 93 percent “speak a language other than English at home,” according to the Census. The town’s estimated median household income stands at $23, 900, about half of New Mexico’s average household income.
Clinton has a full schedule on Saturday. She plans to be in Utah for a 10:30 a.m. rally. From noon to 3 p.m., according to KVIA-TV in El Paso, she’s scheduled to appear in Cantillo, which is in Texas but close to Sunland Park, for an event at Salones La Mision Party Hall, 700 Anthony St.
It’s not clear whether that event is for Obama. Clinton is also campaigning around the country on behalf of House and Senate candidates.
And, according to Newspaper Tree, Clinton will hold an invitation-only fundraiser at the El Paso Country Club for U.S. Rep. Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, on Saturday. A time for that event has not been released publicly.
