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.
Democratic incumbent Gary King leads his Republican challenger Matt Chandler by a wide margin more than two months before November’s election, according to Albuquerque Journal Poll results released today.
Nearly half of the voters — 48 percent — favored the first-term incumbent King over Chandler, who polled at 33 percent, according to the poll. A whopping 19 percent of those surveyed remained undecided, however, according to the Journal.
In a statement e-mailed Tuesday morning, Chandler lashed out at King, saying, “As a career politician with a well-known family name, King has been campaigning for the last three decades. But this election isn’t about family names; it is about fresh direction and the future of our state.”
Among independent voters, always an important constituency, King polled 40 percent to Chandler’s 27 percent, while nearly a third of independents — 31 percent — remained undecided, the paper added.
