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.
A Chimayó man who admitted to threatening a state court judge would have faced felony charges, and more time behind bars if convicted, had the Legislature passed legislation earlier this year raising the punishment for such threats, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports.
Instead, Steven Anthony Martinez, who admitted late Monday to making a pair of threatening phone calls directed at state District Judge Michael Vigil, faces misdemeanor charges, according to the paper.
Two bills that died during the 2010 legislative session would have raised the penalty for threatening a judge to felony status, up from misdemeanor, the New Mexican tells us. Both pieces of legislation — one a House bill, the other a Senate bill — died in the Senate.
