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.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) appeared on the Today Show Tuesday morning and was asked about his comments Saturday that there was “substantial evidence” that some forest fires had been started by illegal immigrants. A Forest Service spokesman told ABC News that there was “no evidence” for McCain’s claim.
On the program, he appeared to walk back his comments, saying “sometimes” “some of” these fires have been started by migrants — much less than “substantial evidence.” McCain has been much more sure of the fires’ causes than forest officials have been: Jim Upchurch, the forest supervisor at Coronado National Forest, told the Arizona Daily Star that “possibly” some of the fires could have been started by “illegal immigrants or smugglers.”
