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.
Gov. Susana Martinez has formed a new political action committee to help elect legislative candidates that share her ideological vision, the Associated Press reported Tuesday.
The PAC is separate from her gubernatorial campaign, though her campaign provided $5,000 in seed money to get the PAC off the ground.
The Associated Press quoted Martinez’s political spokesman Danny Diaz as saying the PAC will support legislators who share Martinez’s legislative goals.
These are “pro-growth economic policies that keep taxes low and reduce regulations, reform the education system to increase accountability and results in the classroom, and protect New Mexicans with common sense policies like ending the practice of giving driver’s licenses to illegal immigrants,” according to Diaz.
A number of Martinez’s legislative goals failed in the legislature, including a bill that would bar illegal immigrants from getting drivers licenses in the state.
Martinez also disagreed with the legislators on many bills that cleared the House and Senate during this year’s session. Of the 284 bills that the legislature passed, Martinez vetoed 98 of them.
All the seats in both the House and Senate will be up for grabs in 2012.
