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.
The most outspoken supporter of a bid to unseat Speaker of the House Ben Luján, D-Nambe, had his committee chairmanship taken away and is now considering switching parties to the Republicans.
Andy Nuñez, D-Hatch, supported the bid for Speaker of the House for Joseph Cervantes, D-Las Cruces. Cervantes did not even nominate himself, and Nunez cast a vote of “present” in the vote between Luján and Tom Taylor, R-Farmington. While many laughed at the vote he cast at the time, it had some repercussions when Nuñez was stripped of his committee chairmanship in the Agriculture and Water Resources Committee and was removed from both that and the Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
Nuñez told the Santa Fe New Mexican that he was considering switching parties. Nuñez had earlier told NMPolitics.net that he would have voted for Taylor over Luján.
If Nuñez were to follow through on his threat to change parties, the Democrats’ advantage in the chamber would be reduced to 36-34.
