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.
Fewer Bernalillo County residents are registering to vote this year, according to County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver. Registrations are down from 2006, in the run up to the last midterm elections, and they’re way down from 2008, when both parties…
Former state House Minority Whip Dan Foley has filed a federal lawsuit alleging that police officers violated his civil and constitutional rights when they arrested him during a basketball game in 2007.
The lawsuit alleges that Foley was “physically…
A political battle over control of New Mexico’s dominant party played out on the Senate floor Tuesday over an unexpected issue: an Albuquerque woman’s nomination to a state board. Confirmations in the Senate are usually uneventful and state lawmakers usually speak…
Secretary of State Mary Herrera is sounding the alarm as loud as she can at the Roundhouse: there isn’t enough money for 2010 primary or general election.
According to a study by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, New Mexicans are slightly less religious than folks in other states around the nation. Out of those polled, 53 percent of New Mexicans say religion is very…
A large developer hoping to finance a huge mixed-used development on the Albuquerque’s West Side—with bonds based on future tax proceeds—is targeting its most vocal opponent on the City Council. A mailer sent to District 5 voters this week criticizes City Councilor Michael Cadigan, who is seeking re-election. Cadigan is a longtime, vocal opponent of the tax-proceeds scheme — called TIDDs for short — by which SunCal, the developer, hopes to pay for roads, water lines and other infrastructure for the development.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez has secured a high-profile endorsement from University of New Mexico Regent Jack Fortner, a sign that not all Republicans are waiting for former U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson to decide whether she’s running before they pledge support to other candidates.
Scott Jennings, a special assistant to then-President George W. Bush — and Karl Rove’s-right hand man — wanted to replace fired U.S. Attorney David Iglesias with prominent New Mexico GOP attorney Pat Rogers, who he described as “the dream” candidate. Rogers had aggressively lobbied Iglesias to pursue cases of voter intimidation, which he said was “the single best wedge issue ever in New Mexico.”
Ray Rivera is an Albuquerque native who recently turned 30. Following two years on Barack Obama’s grueling but ultimately triumphant presidential campaign, Rivera promptly moved to Washington, D.C., and is now arguably New Mexico’s highest ranking presidential appointee.
Jim Spiri is a conservative who traveled extensively last year to try to help GOP nominee John McCain win the presidency. Now, because of his son’s 2001 death, he’s openly supporting President Barack Obama’s attempt to reform the nation’s health care system.
Earlier this month, a send-off party held for Manny Aragon, the prison-bound former president of the New Mexico Senate, created controversy. Now, a golf tournament is being held to raise money for the legal defense of former Public…
As the AP reports today, a voter intimidation lawsuit brought by the Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF) was recently dismissed by U.S. District Judge William Johnson because it failed to establish that there was an “imminent harm” to…
The Federal Election Commission has dismissed a complaint alleging illegal coordination of advertising efforts between former 1st Congressional District Republican candidate Darren White and the New Mexico GOP in last year’s election.
Steve Terrell had the great catch from a very interesting New York Times Magazine article on former President Bill Clinton.
The penny-ante larceny of which Jerome Block, Jr., is accused is small potatoes when compared with the great, hulking pork roast that is the public financing of campaigns. New Mexico currently extracts millions of dollars — with perfect legality — from taxpayers to fund candidates like Block in elections all over the state. That is the theft we should be angry about.
The Bernalillo county clerk will hold a public forum this Saturday to discuss the 2008 general election.
A new documentary on Gov. Sarah Palin looks to rally a GOP ready for a conservative’s-conservative to stick it to the mainstream media in 2012.
Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family gave $727,250 in cash and services to the anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 campaign in California, according to records released by the California secretary of state, including a $100,000 check in late October, just days before the evangelical media empire announced it planned to lay off nearly 20 percent of its employees.
The so-called ‘sour grapes’ lawsuit by three Democrats defeated in the primary officially is done, with the deadline for appeal having passed.
Former state Sens. James Taylor and Shannon Robinson and state Rep. Dan Silva all lost in the Democratic…
Talking Points Memo’s Muckraker reported that former Sen. Pete Domenici is the focus of a federal grand jury probe into the firing of former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias in 2006.
Muckraker reported that “according to legal sources familiar with…
