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The New Mexico Independent going forward

By | 11.16.11

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…

EIB hears more anti-cap-and-trade testimony

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By | 11.10.11

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…

New Mexico’s largest university low in popularity

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By | 11.10.11

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.

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Barack Obama’s promises to keep

By | 11.05.08 | 12:58 pm

At last, we have reached the beginning. Barack Obama has won the presidency. But while an Obama win signals a new era of politics, it is one fraught with peril because so much is expected of him.

Cracking Ohio’s political code

By | 10.27.08 | 5:29 pm

To really understand Ohio, you need a far-reaching anthropological knowledge that few possess. Sometimes, people “get it.” This would most certainly include the presidential campaign of Sen. Barack Obama, now engaged in an all-out assault to win the state’s 20 electoral votes.

Can McCain come back again?

By | 10.17.08 | 7:44 am

John McCain has come from behind before. Now with three presidential debates and “Joe the Plumber” behind him, McCain is in a spot that seemed unimaginable only weeks ago. Down by as many as 14 percentage points in the most recent New York Times-CBS News poll to Sen. Barack Obama, McCain must somehow pull off his best rescue operation yet.

Obama camp responds to Clinton speech

By | 08.27.08 | 12:55 pm

Denver–This comes from Obama communications director Robert Gibbs following Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton’s speech here at the Pepsi Center tonight:
 

After leaving the house party [in Billings, Montana], Senator Obama called and talked for several minutes

Barack Obama has a cold

By | 08.18.08 | 1:50 pm

Sitting in a downtown public library here I began to blog about how the presumed Democratic nominee for president, Barack Obama, seemed somehow more subdued. In truth, over the months I’ve traveled with him, listening to him speak before 20,000…

Clark opens discourse on relevance of the past

By | 07.01.08 | 7:13 pm

 If there’s one thing you can count on at every Barack Obama campaign event it’s this: The presumed Democratic nominee for president, after thanking the crowd and local officials, begins by praising the military service of his counterpart, Sen. John