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.
Rep. Al Park, D-Albuquerque, is the latest victim of a scam after having his personal email account hacked and his contact list used to send a mass email message that asks for money in his name, the New Mexico…
Heath Haussamen of nmpolitics.net reported yesterday that GOP Errol Chavez has been diagnosed with a brain tumor.
Haussamen included in his post a statement from GOP state party chairman Harvey Yates that included some details about Chavez’s…
The campaign for former Republican congressman Steve Pearce raised $592,367 over a three-month period from July through September, bringing to $2 million the total raised, according to a statement the campaign just released.
Pearce, a three-term congressman, hopes to defeat…
The campaign of Republican Susana Martinez said Wednesday it would donate $20,000 it has received from former Texas gubernatorial candidate Clayton Williams to a rape crisis center. The decision came less than eight hours after The Independent revisited what Williams had said during his unsuccessful 1990 run for governor in pointing out a $15,000 contribution Williams gave Martinez on Sept. 27 through his company, Midland, Tx.-based Clayton Williams Energy.
Steven Rattner, a one-time campaign contributor to Gov. Bill Richardson and President Obama’s former auto czar, has reportedly agreed to a settlement with a federal securities agency over claims that he paid kickbacks to get business with the New…
Democratic Lt. Gov. Diane Denish’s campaign is demanding that Republican Susana Martinez return the $15,000 her campaign received from former Texas gubernatorial candidate Clayton Williams.
The Denish camp sent out the statement shortly before 1 p.m. today criticizing Martinez for…
Steve Terrell of the Santa Fe New Mexican tells us today that the Cook Political Report has changed the status of the District 3 Congressional Race featuring Democratic U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan and Republican Tom Mullins from…
Tucked in Susana Martinez’s 59-page report is $15,000 from Clayton Williams Energy, a Midland, Tx. oil and gas outfit. If you’re a political junkie you might remember Clayton Williams.
Williams, who runs the firm, made a memorable…
More than half of the $3.4 million Republican Susana Martinez has raised since late June has come from out-of-state contributors, according to a review of her last two finance reports. That gives Martinez a decided advantage over Democratic Lt. Gov. Diane Denish who has taken in about $400,000 in out-of-state money over the same period.
Republican Secretary of State candidate Dianna Duran took in $54,000 during the latest fundraising period, with substantial help from the state Republican Party, according to a report filed at the Secretary of State’s office.
Duran, a GOP state senator…
A federal judge in California issued a blanket injunction Tuesday ordering the U.S. military to stop enforcing its 17-year-old “Don’t ask, don’t tell” policy, the Associated Press is reporting.
U.S. Judge Virginia Phillips issued the injunction after a two-week…
Republican Susana Martinez‘s estimates of the rate of growth in state spending during the Richardson administration, as well as the size of the tax burden New Mexicans chafe under, come in for some fact-checking thanks to an Associated…
Democratic Attorney General Gary King reported raising $73,875 and spending $275,221 from Sept. 6 through Oct. 4, according to a report his campaign filed Monday.
Nearly half of King’s fundraising came from four contributions: two $12,500 donations, one from Patricia…
Democratic U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Lujan and challenger Tom Mullins met this weekend for a televised debate moderated by Sam Donaldson.
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Homeowners in a Santa Fe subdivision are living examples of the debate that sometimes occurs between the relative benefits of solar energy vs. disrupted views of natural vistas when the new technology comes calling, the New Mexican reports.
The…
The state’s largest newspaper on Sunday endorsed two Republicans and one Democrat in three statewide races.
Republican Secretary of State candidate Dianna Duran and GOP Attorney General candidate Matthew Chandler won endorsements from The Albuquerque Journal, as…
Steve Pearce’s campaign couldn’t bring itself to say President Barack Obama was a natural born U.S. citizen Thursday, although it did issue a statement saying that he was the “duly elected president.”
Former New York Comptroller Alan Hevesi will plead guilty today to a single count of receiving award for official misconduct, the New York Times is reporting.
I wrote last week how a guilty plea by Hevesi might lead to…
The state Division of Insurance, and the Public Regulation Commission (PRC), will seek legislation this coming session that would grant new, strengthened regulatory powers to vet premium rate hike requests from health insurers. If passed, the new powers would allow the insurance agency to consider an insurer’s investment income, surplus and cost containment and an insurer’s overall profitability rather than just the profitability of a particular line of insurance.
Former Republican Congressman Steve Pearce leads first-term Democratic congressman Harry Teague by four points in New Mexico’s hotly contested 2nd Congressional District race, according to a new poll released today.
With just under four weeks to go…
