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.
There is something to be said for those who answer their nation’s call to service. And there is something else altogether to be said for a nation’s duty to serve those veterans upon their return.
You can count the days until George W. Bush is history, or you can join 249,999 of your closest friends in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 20 for the Barack Obama inauguration. And, much like the taxpayer-funded bailout, it’s free.…
Ceremonies to honor New Mexico’s long tradition of military service will be held throughout the state on Tuesday, Veterans Day. This year marks the 90th anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended World War I. It was signed…
Baby, it’s cold outside, but will it snow? More important, can you ski on it? New Mexico’s $114 million ski industry sure hopes so, with Sipapu the first one to open this Friday. But if you believe the forecasters, maybe this isn’t the year to invest in that new pair of Rossignol Classic CX-80s.
While Gov. Bill Richardson‘s name gets bandied about for an Obama administration post, Aussie Stephen Morris, a senior fellow at Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced International Studies, in Washington, D.C., pooh-poohs anything smacking of “secretary of state.”…
The Prophet Yahweh, as we noted in a previous post, had hoped to summon UFOs for Obama on Halloween. Their purpose was to tell the world that a vote for John McCain over Barack Obama was a vote for…
During his victory speech Tuesday night, President-elect Barack Obama promised his daughters, Malia, 10, and Sasha, 7, that their reward for putting up with the campaign would be a new puppy.
Presidential pets — especially dogs — have a…
Despite the tears and occasional jeers at the New Mexico Republican Party’s election-watch event Tuesday, rays of hope began to emerge. Are any of them ready to heed the call to turn around and get right back into another election? (And, yes, another election is our reward for getting through this one.)
The news has already begun on who’s going to be who in the Barack Obama Oval Office. First up: Rahm Emanuel as chief of staff.
The Chicago-area U.S. representative caught Obama’s eye, according to ABC’s George Stephanopoulos on…
The first rule of any veteran election-night party-goer is this: Don’t show up on time. At 7 p.m., the bar may be open and the buffet full-up, but the real fun won’t start until results start pouring in. For Republicans on Tuesday, the sentiment seemed to be don’t show up at all.
Credit (or blame) Barack Obama’s coattails, but New Mexico Democrats have plenty to celebrate on the state level, too. In the Albuquerque-area, five Democrats picked off Republican incumbents in the state House and Senate, doing their part to improve their party’s long domination of both chambers.
With his 36-year term in the U.S. Senate coming to an end, Sen. Pete Domenici spend the day campaigning as though he was on the ballot. While surely a bittersweet time for him, New Mexico’s senior senator paused to offer the Independent thoughts on the state of the nation and advice to tonight’s eventual victor.
Want to be where the action (or, perhaps, inaction) will be tonight? Don’t go to the New Mexico Republican Party‘s Web site for help.
There’s nothing on the homepage, and its calendar offers only a monthly candidate breakfast (from…
Of all the depressing statistics bedeviling our nation right now, here’s one that’s easy to fix: When the polls close Tuesday night, one in three women will have failed to cast a ballot. Jane Addams and Susan B. Anthony, two of the suffragists who truly suffered through the long fight to win women’s right to vote, will be shaking their heads in shame.
So you’ve had enough jabber about Sarah Palin’s lipstick? Political jokes about putting lipstick on a whatever? Lipstick talk, period?
Well, Palin may have lasted until the campaign’s final moments, but in the world of retail, Hillary Clinton’s lipstick lasted…
Buzzflash‘s Meg White has a beef with the (possibly premature) talk of a Barack Obama cabinet: Too many men’s names are being bandied about. (Sorry, Gov. Bill Richardson.)
So, they’re asking readers to submit their suggestions for the women…
Could Barack Obama have Election Day coattails long enough to reach down into the New Mexico Legislature? That’s certainly the hope of state Democrats — and the fear of at least a few Republicans. Thanks to clever redistricting, most seats in the 112-member body have remained remarkably stable for years. But at least a few are drawing intense interest, and money, in this election cycle.
New Mexicans are far too familiar with the problem: The polls close, the counting begins and … it … lingers.
Sometimes it’s a county clerk who’d rather send her staff home to sleep. Sometimes it’s a ballot box,…
Sarah Palin is drawing jeers from the campaign’s big boys for refusing to stick to their script and seeming to reject the notion of an ’08 victory. She’s clearly ticked off at how the campaign handled coverage of her…
What’s black and white and red all over?
The embarrassed mainstream media, if Barack Obama loses to John McCain.
That’s the conundrum raised by the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz, who quotes Boston University’s Tobe Berkovitz, associate dean of the…
