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.
Gov. Bill Richardson and U.S. Sen. John Kerry “lobbied fiercely” to get the Obama administration job of envoy to North Korea, but both lost out to former President Jimmy Carter, Foreign Policy magazine reported today.
Carter is in North Korea to negotiate the release of an American who teaches English who was sentenced to eight years of hard labor in April.
The magazine quoted a former official as saying that “Richardson in particular had been talking with the North Koreans for at least two months about making the trip but was ultimately told not to go by National Security Advisor Jim Jones.”
Apparently Richardson’s North Korean contacts in the United States had even spoken to him about demands the country would make for Gomes’s release.
