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.
If Val Kilmer wants to be governor of New Mexico and follow in the footsteps of actor-turned-governors such as Arnold Schwarzenegger and Ronald Reagan, he has an odd way of campaigning.
The Associated Press is reporting that Kilmer will…
In many ways, New Mexico’s three new Democratic members of Congress are like pimply-faced ninth graders trying to make their way in a new school full of older, cooler kids. So are Harry Teague, Ben Ray Lujan and Martin Heinrich going to play varsity ball and date junior girls? Or will they be relegated to intramural badminton, the chess club, an empty table in the lunchroom?
Agnes Moses watched a black man become president Tuesday. And she cried.
They were tears of seeing the unexpected, of seeing a sight for which you’d hoped against hope for but never really thought you’d see.
“I never even imagined…
When Barack Obama takes the oath of office today around 10 a.m. local time, it will be a singular moment in American history. With the simple act of placing his hand on the Bible, Obama, 47, will not only become the 44th president of the U.S. but also the first African American to occupy the nation’s top elected office, a giant stride for a country that has moved at times haltingly toward equality.
Barack Obama becomes the nation’s 44th president around 10 a.m. MST. But the Albuquerque Journal’s list of local events proves that you can celebrate the transition of power all day long.
And lest you forget because of today’s festivities,…
The Albuquerque Journal’s Around the Tubes (why didn’t we think of that name?) includes excerpts from a final interview with former Sen. Pete Domenici.
SFReeper decides to play chicken with Viacom on YouTube and highlights a clip of…
A report on election protection efforts in 2008 by a statewide coalition was released by Common Cause today. It reports on how the 2008 election year went in terms of ensuring that every vote counted and makes proposals for…
According to Dr. Michael McDonald of George Mason University, early voting totals were up nearly 12 percent this year from the 2004 presidential election. In New Mexico, 33 percent of voters used mail-in ballots and didn’t step foot in a school…
Gov. Bill Richardson’s former chief of staff, David Contarino, is a subject of the federal investigation into whether Richardson pressured the New Mexico Finance Authority to give a lucrative contract to a California firm that contributed significantly to Richardson PACs,…
Since October 2007, New Mexico politics have been in a state of flux as the transition to the post-Pete Domenici era unfolded at the same time that the progressive takeover of American politics shifted the makeup of the state’s congressional delegation and Legislature. Bill Richardson dropped another bomb on New Mexico politics on Sunday when he withdrew his nomination to be commerce secretary.
The Minnesota Supreme Court ordered (pdf) Friday afternoon that the campaign of Al Franken respond by 9 a.m. Saturday to U.S. Sen. Norm Coleman’s Dec. 31 petition to start over on the current court-ordered effort to count wrongfully rejected absentee ballots.
KUNM News Director Jim Williams recently sat down with several local reporters to talk over the big stories of 2008. And as you can imagine there was a lot to talk about: Barack Obama‘s huge victory in otherwise purple…
A sampling of New Mexico environmental leaders cites a wide range of what they consider the biggest issues for the year that was. They include Tax Increment Development Districts, the proposed Desert Rock power plant, river otters, the destruction wrought by all-terrain vehicles in national forests and a new law allowing concealed weapons in national parks. But mostly they wanted to talk politics. Like everyone else, environmentalists were consumed by the 2008 elections and the sea change coming to the Legislature, Congress and the White House.
During a year in which 60 percent of New Mexico’s delegation to D.C. won’t be back for the swearing in of new members next week, looking back at how much the delegation supported George W. Bush’s stances on issues this…
Help came to Gov. Bill Richardson last month in the form of contributions from a Midwestern law firm, whose attorneys gave $10,000 of the $17,000 the U.S. commerce secretary designate raised in November, The Associated Press is reporting.
Richardson…
Just in case you missed it, the New York Times reported last week on Gov. Bill Richardson’s potential problem getting confirmed as commerce secretary, given the federal investigation of CDR Financial Products Inc.’s ability to gain lucrative contracts…
Normally, a state’s attorney general defends state legislation. But in the case of California’s recently-passed Proposition 8, which took away the right to same-sex marriage after the California Supreme Court paved the way for it last spring, that’s not the…
What’s next for the steadfastly conservative congressman? Head of the state GOP? Governor in 2010? Some say if he’s going to get elected to another office, New Mexico will have to change. Because Steve Pearce won’t.
The controversial Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN) used two cases from New Mexico in a fundraising e-mail sent out Thursday afternoon to supporters.
A field director in ACORN’s voter registration program, Mouath B. Baesho, wrote the e-mail…
Fox News talking head Sean Hannity has been named 2008 Misinformer of the Year by Media Matters, a left-leaning media watchdog group.
Hannity has been a prolific and influential purveyor of conservative misinformation. But never has he so enthusiastically applied
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