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.
New Mexico’s new Governor Susana Martinez is a role model for Latinas, the Albuquerque Journal’s Leslie Linthicum writes today.
How did she win? “Martinez Protected Base, Attracted Dems,” according to the Journal’s Sean Olson.
Martinez has begun putting…
Republican congressional leaders made noise Wednesday about targeting the nation’s new federal health care law after winning control of the U.S. House of Representatives and adding a few more Republicans to the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, the Washington Post reports.
It’s no secret that the GOP made repealing the law one of the battle cries of the 2010 midterm congressional elections, a position that helped fueled what the Post called the largest Republican sweep in nearly half a century.
But the GOP has few easy paths to repealing the health care law, the Associated Press writes in an analysis published earlier this morning. More …
Republicans appeared to pick up several seats in the state House on Tuesday, significantly narrowing the Democrats’ margin of control in the chamber, GOP lawmakers said late Tuesday night. Tuesday’s election returns caused GOP legislative leaders to wax about the coming changes they predicted after apparently picking up eight seats.
State Sen. Dianna Duran made history Tuesday, becoming the first Republican to in 80 years to win election as the New Mexico Secretary of State. Unofficial results showed Duran winning nearly 59 percent of the vote to defeat first-term incumbent Mary Herrera, who collected just over 41 percent.
Incumbent Gary King appears to have prevailed over Republican challenger and Clovis District Attorney Matt Chandler after a heated race for the New Mexico attorney general’s office.
Ray Powell won the state land commissioner race on Tuesday, defeating Republican Matthew Rush 52.2 percent to 47.8 percent as of 12:02 a.m. Wednesday, according to unofficial returns from the Secretary of State’s office.
Two Republicans and one Democrat took three open Public Regulation Commission (PRC) seats that were up for election Tuesday.
Patrick Lyons, Ben Hall and Theresa Becenti-Aguilar were all elected to the PRC, arguably the state’s most powerful regulatory agency.
State Auditor Hector Balderas, a Democrat, was re-elected Tuesday as the state’s top financial watchdog.
Balderas had received 277,484 votes (54.1%), according to unofficial Secretary of State returns as of 11:10 p.m. Tuesday. His Republican challenger Errol Chavez…
Freshman Democrat Ben Ray Lujan easily defeated Farmington engineer Tom Mullins Tuesday. Unofficial results from the Secretary of State’s office showed Lujan with 56.9 percent of the vote and Mullins with 43.1 percent of the vote as of 12:12 a.m. Wednesday.
Republican Steve Pearce appears headed back to Washington. The Democratic incumbent, Harry Teague, called Steve Pearce to congratulate him Tuesday night and told supporters that representing southern New Mexico was the “greatest honor of his life.”
Republican Susana Martinez cruised to victory Tuesday, riding a crest of voter discontent and anger over a broken economy to become New Mexico’s first female governor — and the first Hispanic woman in the country to lead a U.S. state. Unofficial results late Tuesday showed Martinez capturing nearly 54 percent of the vote, to Democrat Diane Denish’s 46 percent.
Voters rejected two proposed constitutional amendments that would have relaxed term limits on elected county officials from eight to 12 years and would have allowed state lawmakers to accept positions in other branches of state government.
After a tougher-than-expected election, KRQE has called the 3rd Congressional District for incumbent Ben Ray Luján. As of this writing, Luján leads 53.5 percent to 46.5 percent over the political novice Tom Mullins.
Democrat Stephanie DuBois has lost her bid for the powerful and controversial Public Regulation Commission (PRC)’s District 2 seat to outgoing state land commissioner Patrick Lyons, a Republican, she conceded at 9:20 p.m. Tuesday night. Lyons will replace PRC chairman…
Local TV station KRQE has called the 2nd Congressional District election for Republican Steve Pearce. Pearce was facing incumbent Democrat Harry Teague for the seat which Pearce held before running for Senate in 2008.
As the numbers in the Secretary…
Dianna Duran is ready to claim a victory in the Secretary of State’s race.
“I am ready to say the people of New Mexico have spoken,” she told The Independent before taking the podium at the Albuquerque Hilton where Republicans…
Brian Sanderoff and NBC News have projected that Republican Susana Martinez will win the race for governor.
Sanderoff, a respected pollster who does the Albuquerque Journal poll, made the call on KOAT-TV a few minutes ago.
Meanwhile a big cheer…
Democratic incumbent Martin Heinrich and Republican challenger Jon Barela are locked in a close race in Bernalillo County, the county that makes up much of the 1st Congressional District.
The early and absentee votes were nearly identical for the two…
Police were called to the Manzano High School polling location Tuesday after a man was reportedly intimidated voters and poll workers, according to Bernalillo County Clerk Maggie Toulouse Oliver.
Toulouse Oliver said the man, who supported Republican candidates, was initially reported for…
Dem, Republican volunteers ‘equally aggressive,’ Taos Clerk says
