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.
Republican Secretary of State candidate Dianna Duran took in $54,000 during the latest fundraising period, with substantial help from the state Republican Party, according to a report filed at the Secretary of State’s office.
Duran, a GOP state senator challenging the embattled Democratic incumbent Mary Herrera, received $25,000 from the state GOP on Oct. 1 and took in another $5,000 from Yates Petroleum Co. on . Sept. 8. Harvey Yates, Jr. is the chairman of the Republican Party of New Mexico.
Duran only spent $5,000 during this latest period, which means she has $84,000 on hand for the last four weeks of the election cycle.
Herrera had not filed her report as of this writing.
Political observers have said the GOP has the best chance of taking the Secretary of State’s office in 80 years because of Herrera’s troubles, which include three former aides accusing her of corruption.
