Military
Events to honor New Mexico’s veterans
Ceremonies to honor New Mexico’s long tradition of military service will be held throughout the state on Tuesday, Veterans Day. This year marks the 90th anniversary of the signing of the armistice that ended World War I. It was signed on “the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.”
State Department of Veterans [...]
TODAY’S TOP STORIES: Can straight ticket to voter laziness be abolished?
New Mexico is one of only 16 states that still has a straight-party voting option on its ballots, and Green Party candidate Rick Lass says he will lobby to abolish it. A beheaded man was left hanging from an overpass in Ciudad Juarez Thursday, a gruesome calling card in the latest violence in the Mexican [...]
TODAY’S TOP STORIES: English & Poetry teacher Bill Nevins let go by CNM
Remember Bill Nevins? Nevins was fired by Rio Rancho High School in 2003 from his position as a humanities teacher and poetry coach after one of his poetry students read an anti-war poem over the school intercom system. This was during a the context of multiple anti-war protests in Albuquerque that were characterized by police [...]
The backstory of Colin Powell’s endorsment
“His name was Kareem Rashad Sultan Khan, and he was an American. He was born in New Jersey. He was 14 years old at the time of 9/11, and he waited until he could go serve his country, and he gave his life.”
Juárez tourism pronounced dead
Tourism is dead in the once-popular Mexican border town of Juárez.
That’s the pronouncement of a story put together by the Las Cruces Sun-News and Associated Press summarizing the uncontrolled violence that has killed more than 1,100 people this year, including 37 last weekend alone.
Udall’s ad gaining lots of attention
Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tom Udall’s new ad featuring a wounded Iraq war veteran is gaining national attention.
“Wow” is the only word accompanying the ad in a posting displayed prominently on the Daily Kos home page. “GAME OVER!!” states one comment on the posting. Says another: “I am (virtually) speechless. That was simple, and extraordinarily [...]
Tom Udall’s new TV ad… just watch it
I’ve been trying to figure out how to describe Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Tom Udall’s new ad in a way that captures its effectiveness. Three words: Just watch it.
Albuquerque ‘safe’ place to ride out a recession
When the economy goes south, Albuquerque looks sunny in more ways than the weather, according to a Business Week assessment that aims to “identify the best places to live during a recession.”
Imagining Steve Pearce, Tom Udall as senators
Steve Pearce combines a laconic cowboy’s persona with a penchant for brash rhetoric to support his conservative outlook. Tom Udall has skillfully climbed the committee ladder in Congress to carry on his family’s conservationist legacy. Their backgrounds and their styles may just reveal something of how each man might operate in Congress’ more exclusive chamber — the U.S. Senate.
TODAY’S TOP STORIES: Bingaman and Domenici pull for bailout that has provisions close to their hearts
Conservative bloggers are speaking out against the Senate-passed version of the $700 billion bailout plan that contains a plethora of earmarks and other measures, including two of great importance to New Mexico senators Pete Domenici, R-N.M., and Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M.: a mental health parity provision and new tax credit extensions for the wind and solar [...]