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 his latest TV ad, Albuquerque mayoral candidate Richard Berry labels himself “impeccably honest,” but a photographic sleight of hand in the ad appears to exaggerate the length of time Chavez has spent as mayor.
In the ad, a book is opened…
Gov. Bill Richardson admitted early on in his free-wheeling lecture to students at the University of New Mexico that it was his idea to talk to them about U.S.-Cuba relations.
“I actually organized this talk,” the ex-United Nations ambassador fessed…
Shortly after President Obama finished his major health care reform address to a rare joint session of Congress, U.S. Rep. Martin Heinrich sounded an optimistic note in an interview with the Independent.
Former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias made some news over the weekend calling for overlapping terms of office for federal prosecutors from one presidential administration to the next.
The top story in today’s Albuquerque Journal (competing with a story about the adorable newborn Asian elephant at the Rio Grande zoo) is about natural gas prices. Specifically, that natural gas prices dropped this week to a seven-year-low.
Budget woes keep growing. According to the Associated Press, Farmington has cut city spending by $3.3 million.
On the positive side, the cuts do not include furloughs, pay cuts or layoffs. Instead, the cuts focus on road work, park…
Here’s a video report I put together for KNME’s New Mexico In Focus this past weekend.
The once-flying-high light-jet manufacturer Eclipse Aviation — or more precisely, its remnants — is aiming for a relaunch.
After Eclipse Aerospace bought up all of the assets and buildings of the bankrupt Eclipse Aviation, the South Carolina-based company is…
The New Mexico Foundation for Open Government — ally to advocates of transparent government, bane of secretive politicans — has a new leader.
Sarah Welch, a 31-year-old ex-newspaper editor in northern New Mexico, was named as FOG’s new executive…
I caught up with first-term state Sen. Eric Griego this past weekend about the state’s burgeoning budget shortfall. As news of an October special legislative session to address the $433 million budget gap took shape last week, the…
The League of United Latin American Citizens is urging New Mexico law enforcement agencies to give up their tasers. The group suggests that tasers are used on racial and ethnic minorities more often than non-Hispanic whites.
But meanwhile, an…
Let the great DWI debate begin! Today’s all-caps front-page headline in the Albuquerque Journal pretty much says it all — “GOV. WANTS MANDATORY JAIL TIME FOR DWI.”
The story by the Journal’s intrepid crime reporter T.J. Wilham makes clear…
In an interview, U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman was far from confident that major bipartisan health care reform will prevail when Congress reconvenes after its August recess. “It may work, it may not,” Bingaman said. “It’s possible we get to September and find we can’t agree.”
And now it’s official.
Earlier today, Sonia Sotomayor took the oath of office as the nation’s 111th justice of the U.S. Supreme Court.
But it was this past Thursday when the nation’s first Hispanic member of the high court…
File this away in today’s good news slot.
Stories written for the New Mexico Independent will nab three national first-place awards when the National Federation of Press Women holds its annual conference in San Antonio, Texas next month.
Bad news in the Four Corners. We know know that Farmington now has the highest joblessness rate of any city in the state — 7.8 percent unemployment for the month of June, according to a story in today’s Farmington…
At Spaceport America, a low-altitude rocket launched successfully, according to the Associated Press. Moog Industries is just one of several companies examining the viability of the emerging space tourism market. And while there were a few snags in the…
In case you haven’t heard, July was the deadliest month on record in the Mexican border city of Ciudad Juárez.
Columnist Joline Gutierrez Krueger handles the complicated topic of what it means to be transgender with aplomb on the front page of today’s Albuquerque Journal. What’s mostly a profile of Equality New Mexico leader Jordan Johnson, is also quite…
The University of New Mexico campus will be tobacco-free starting August 1. School officials argue this is a move to make UNM a more healthy environment. Although there is yet to be a form of punishment for getting caught,…
