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.
Lt. Gov. John Sanchez inched closer to announcing a Senate run this weekend at a tea party rally in Moriarty. Sanchez has been named as a potential Republican candidate for the open Senate seat.
KOAT reported that “Sanchez sounded like a man with a plan to run for the Senate.”
“If we do, we’re in it to win it clearly,” Sanchez told KOAT.
Sanchez recently attacked perceived frontrunner Heather Wilson, a former U.S. Rep., as a moderate and signaled that he was close to announcing his Senate intentions.
Wilson was also at the Moriarty tea party event.
Wilson has already announced that she is going to run to replace long-time U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman. Also in the Republican primary are businessman and former congressional candidate Greg Sowards and columnist Bill English.
U.S. Rep. Steve Pearce has yet to decide whether to run for Senate again.
No Democratic candidates have announced their intention to run yet, but U.S. Reps. Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján, State Auditor Hector Balderas and former Lt. Gov. Diane Denish have all either said they are looking at a run or have been reportedly looking at a run.
