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.
“I’m going to represent the people of the 2nd Congressional District, not represent a party,” freshman Democratic Rep. Harry Teague says in his first television ad of the campaign.
With that line Teague appears to be distancing himself from the unpopular Democratic Party—although the Republican Party is even less popular among voters according to the latest NBC-Wall Street Journal poll.
Although outside groups have run TV ads critical of Teague’s opponent, former Republican Congressman Steve Pearce, Teague the first to air his own ad. The ad, called “Driving,” features the congressman speaking to constituents throughout the district, an area larger than the state of Pennsylvania. Teague’s campaign said in a press release that he has been back to the district nearly every weekend since being elected to Congress.
