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.
According to the AP, the Obama campaign and Democratic National Committee are expected to announce today that Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano will chair the Democratic Party’s Platform Drafting Committee. Patricia Madrid, the former New Mexico Attorney General and congressional candidate, will be a co-chair, along with Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick and former Discovery Communications President and CEO Judith McHale. Madrid was long a John Edwards supporter (which couldn’t have pleased Richardson much) before he dropped out of the presidential race.
Speaking of the presidential campaigns, John McCain continues to court Hispanic voters today, as he delivers a speech to the League of United Latin American Citizens convention in Washington, D.C. According to excerpts of McCain’s speech released beforehand, reported by CBS News’ John Bentley, he’ll say something like this:
“I and many other colleagues twice attempted to pass comprehensive immigration legislation to fix our broken borders; ensure respect for the laws of this country; recognize the important economic necessity of immigrant laborers; apprehend those who came here illegally to commit crimes; and deal practically and humanely with those who came here. …We must prove to them that we can and will secure our borders first, while respecting the dignity and rights of citizens and legal residents of the United States.”
Yesterday in Santa Fe, the Santa Fe County Commission voted to withdraw from the North Central Regional Transit District and form a new alliance with the city, according to the New Mexican. County Commissioner Jack Sullivan spearheaded the move, which he says will give the county more local control and deliver more for the money. Commissioner Mike Anaya, chairman of the regional transit district board, opposed the move, saying "It’s easier for the Legislature and for the federal government to give money to anything that is regional."
On Wednesday night Masque Entertainment Studios will ask the Rio Rancho City Council for help pursuing industrial revenue bonds, or IRBs in order to put a film studio in Rio Rancho, according to the Journal. Masque is looking to quickly build a studio and eight sound stages at the HAWK missile site near the National guard armory. Lionsgate already secured financial aid from Rio Rancho to locate its studio in the city, but it has yet to start building; they had agreed to start by November of this year.
