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.
Welcome to our new feature, The Independent Forum! Every week we’ll ask a different question and solicit responses from a diverse group of New Mexico thinkers. New responses are added all the time. From Wednesday: Bill Jordan of Voices for Children and Steven Robert Allen of Common Cause.
The Independent isn’t doing away with opinion, just changing the format for its expression, as you will soon see.
American dislike of government is deeply ingrained in our national character.
Among the sworn opponents to the House bill are the extremist-driven Republican Party, corporate Democrats, tea party and other anti-government protesters, libertarians, insurers, the Fox fantasists and rightist talk radio. Logically, then, the bill must be a great step forward. But I’m not so sure.
Following two days of investigation, here’s what I’ve learned about a situation that has gained the attention of Republicans and the media this week. The bottom line: I’m not sure there was a story to begin with.
When Dick Cheney urges President Obama to abandon analysis for action on Afghanistan – it’s manlier to do than think – the former VP may just be thumping his hairy chest.
The Journal rank-and-file turns out so much good copy, it would be no trick publishing a daily newspaper chock full of journalism – and only journalism. Sadly, Journal management denies us that treat.
In the year since William Tenorio of San Felipe Pueblo was struck and killed by Santa Fe attorney Carlos Fierro, much has been made of Fierro’s extensive connections. But the Tenorio family has connections too, and they have helped the family stay strong through this ordeal.
Horizontal thinking obscures hierarchy, the way we distribute power. This delights those atop the ladder, whose power persists so long as we on the lower rungs don’t look up.
This has always been among the darkest of brutal secrets in American life and in most of the cultures of the world.
This week Rush Limbaugh was dropped from a group of investors hoping to put together a bid to buy the St. Louis Rams. This decision is not censorship. Limbaugh can say whatever he wants on his show and he can still make millions from it. That’s the free market, baby!
News organizations with time and resources could ride to the public’s rescue by mastering the material and conveying it succinctly. They could. Most do not.
Running the city like a business in the old sense of the cliche, and in this business climate, would mean running the city like a failed business – cutting jobs, scaling back services, tightening and tightening until nothing’s left, but refusing to change the failed products.
Shame is dead, true, and nowhere more so than in politics. But shamelessness is not a rightist monopoly. The Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee wants dollars to fight Republicans “obstructing” the Obama agenda. The DSCC never mentions that it’s corporate Democrats – Baucus, Nelson, Lincoln and pals – who are murdering real health care reform.
The mayoral race bumped along in fits and starts for months, but it sure got crazy there at the end, didn’t it? Ultimately, Tuesday’s shocking election left us with a candidate who won decisively – but it leaves lots of questions about exactly how and why it happened and what kind of mayor Berry will be.
What is the difference between a judge who thinks the abstraction of following procedure is more important than stopping the execution of an innocent person—and someone who would go to the ends of the earth, applying every legal skill to…
The furor surrounding President Obama’s effort to secure the 2016 Olympics for his adopted home town of Chicago took me by surprise; the outrage on the right was fierce and uncompromising. But we need to save our outrage for the issues that really matter.
When the state was flush with funds, the highest earning New Mexicans got the biggest benefit. Now times are tough, and those who got no benefit will suffer the consequences the most. That is unfair by any standard.
I am deeply disappointed that two high ranking members of the Senate independently and prematurely communicated information pertaining to budget cuts that does not represent the position or the views of the legislature as a collective body.
Pre-recorded campaign calls remind me that I will soon trek to my neighborhood elementary school to vote for mayor. It’s a tricky decision this year. My primary concern is how the city will grow. Slowly, I would hope, with great emphasis on the regional environment broadly defined—we need to foster spiritual and community health, as well as clean air and water.
