Denise Tessier
TODAY’S TOP STORIES: Can straight ticket to voter laziness be abolished?
New Mexico is one of only 16 states that still has a straight-party voting option on its ballots, and Green Party candidate Rick Lass says he will lobby to abolish it. A beheaded man was left hanging from an overpass in Ciudad Juarez Thursday, a gruesome calling card in the latest violence in the Mexican [...]
UNM professor to dish about election reform
Hungry for more political discourse?
Lonna Rae Atkeson, a University of New Mexico professor and Regents’ Lecturer who studies the political process, will answer questions about the election and efforts to improve future elections when she delivers a talk Monday during the monthly luncheon meeting of Albuquerque Press Women, which is open to the public.
Embattled Block edges out Lass in PRC race
Despite challenges to his campaign expenditures by the secretary of state’s office, Democratic Public Regulation Commission candidate Jerome Block Jr. took the northern District 3 Public Regulation Commission seat being vacated by newly elected Congressman Ben Ray Lujan in an unofficial tally count of 56.2 percent of the vote.
Lujan walks away with the CD3 race
Democrat Ben Ray Lujan will represent New Mexico’s Third Congressional District in the House of Representatives, taking the seat vacated by newly elected U.S. senator Tom Udall. In a three-way race, his closest challenger, Republican Dan East, conceded the race at about 10 p.m. Tuesday night, with most New Mexico precincts reporting.
Taos author John Nichols says he’ll write two more books. Then ‘I’m done’
Lest anyone think John Nichols’ promise to cut back on his prolificacy as a writer was merely to buttress his argument for sustainability this past weekend, think again.
During a talk at the University of New Mexico, the famed Taos author promised “to promote a healthier environment by only writing books the size of my novel [...]
E&P predicts Obama landslide based on newspaper endorsements tally
Even with the addition of the Albuquerque Journal to its John McCain column, Editor and Publisher online is predicting Barack Obama will win in a landslide victory, based on E&P’s tally of daily newspaper endorsements and a prediction system that factors in the circulation numbers of each paper.
Behind The Albuquerque Journal endorsements
I may be handing out the keys to the kingdom in even having this discussion. The Journal’s editorials do reflect the views of the editorial board in most cases, although the votes of some members carry more weight than others.
John Nichols, unconventional socialist
Socialism has been bandied about as a scare word in the run-up to Election Day, but New Mexico author and naturalist John Nichols embraces idealistic, Declaration of Independence-style socialism as the answer to the climate crisis.
Response a trickle to group’s survey of candidate water views
How do the central New Mexico candidates for state Legislature stand on water issues?
The Middle Rio Grande Water Assembly (MRGWA), an all-volunteer water advocacy group for a region that includes three large watersheds –- the Rio Puerco, Río Jemez and Middle Río Grande –- tried to find out. But only 19 of the 70 candidates [...]
TODAY’S TOP STORIES: NM mothers’ milk found deficient
A study of New Mexico breast-feeding mothers found that their infants, on average, received only one-quarter the recommended amount of a nutrient needed for brain development -– among the lowest levels in the world. The Alamogordo woman who called Barack Obama a “Muslim socialist” and said she believes “Muslims are our enemies,” says she won’t [...]