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.
In the weeks leading up to the marathon presidential election, many of us began to wait feverishly for the day after Nov. 4 — looking forward to a “no politics” period. But as it turns out the political news doesn’t let up. Will any of us be able to tear ourselves away from the Obama transition process? Barack and Michelle visit George and Laura today. The media is abuzz with talk of who will be in the Cabinet, with former Clintonites as well as Republicans getting plenty of attention. Another New Mexican has popped up on the radar also, although not for a Cabinet post. The Albuquerque Journal’s Dan McKay says there’s a rumor that Bernalillo County Commissioner Deanna Archuleta is being considered for a spot on the transition team.
Obama’s transition chief, John Podesta, says we can expect Obama to use executive orders immediately upon assuming office “…to get off the course that the Bush administration has set.” One has to wonder if this will include rescinding the “the broad, secret authority” given to the military in 2004 to attack the Al Qaida network “anywhere in the world.” According to the New York Times, there have been nearly a dozen attacks since then in Syria, Pakistan and “other countries.” This on top of previous orders allowing warrantless eavesdropping, as well as the secret detention and interrogation of people in overseas prisons.
Back to New Mexico, or close by anyway, The Las Cruces Sun-News tells us that Obama took the time to reply to a 7-year-old El Paso girl who sent him a letter just days before the election. Yes, someone else probably wrote it…but apparently he signed it. Where would he have found the time?
The Albuquerque Journal’s John Fleck tells us that the experts say it’s going to be a dry winter. Something tells me that snow bunnies throughout Albuquerque are weeping into their pillows. This one was (although I refuse to believe it until I see it).
