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Journal’s making a buck on Obama election, but Domenici too?
The Albuquerque Journal isn’t the only newspaper selling commemorative issues of the front page from Nov. 5 — the day after the history-making election of Barack Obama as president. As one person said, “You can’t keep a Web page in a scrapbook.”
Well, if you hit your print button, you can, but we won’t argue. It’s [...]
TODAY’S TOP STORIES: NM mothers’ milk found deficient
A study of New Mexico breast-feeding mothers found that their infants, on average, received only one-quarter the recommended amount of a nutrient needed for brain development -– among the lowest levels in the world. The Alamogordo woman who called Barack Obama a “Muslim socialist” and said she believes “Muslims are our enemies,” says she won’t [...]
Economy fueled Obama’s surge. Just check the polls, UNM poly sci professor says
Barack Obama’s recent rise in the presidential race numbers isn’t due to media persuasion –- as the increasing volume in blogosphere and email chatter would have us believe –- but rather is directly tied to Americans’ negative response to the economic crisis. That’s the opinion of one UNM political scientist who looks to numerous polls for confirmation.
Taos News endorses Obama
Barack Obama now has a 4-1 lead over John McCain in the presidential endorsements by New Mexico newspapers, as the Taos News came out in favor of the Democratic candidate.
A ‘landslide’ of newspaper endorsements for Obama
Editor & Publisher magazine is calling it an editorial endorsement landslide — even a rout — as the tally of presidential endorsements by daily newspapers over the weekend and updated today mushroomed to 194 opining in favor of Barack Obama vs. 82 for John McCain. The figure included several papers that traditionally endorse Republican but [...]
Conservative Farmington daily newspaper endorses Obama
The Farmington Daily Times’ editorial board likes John McCain, but couldn’t stomach the idea of Sarah Palin in the Oval Office.
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.
Political economist: America is bankrupt
Politicians and economists may couch the current economic crisis in words like “intensifying solvency concerns” and “brink of systemic meltdown,” but political economist Scott Goold comes directly to the point in delivering his assessment: The United States of America is bankrupt.
Obama leading in newspaper endorsements — so far
At three weeks before the election, more newspapers are publishing editorial endorsements for president – and Barack Obama is ahead by a 2-1 margin nationwide, albeit with only about a tenth of the papers reporting at this time.
Add to that Esquire magazine, which will endorse for the first time in its 75-year history when its [...]
American ‘history’ with a crystal ball
“John McCain takes the U.S. presidency with 277 electoral votes, winning Ohio and Florida by less than 1 percent of the vote. American policy on Iraq does not change.”
Thus begins a spectacularly creative “history” in this week’s issue of Esquire that takes the reader from Election Day of this year forward to the year 2083, when:
“The 150th anniversary issue of Esquire is made available via memory file — an instantaneous burst of binary information that’s absorbed through the retina from a disposable contact lens.”