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.
The U.S. Justice Department will file no charges in the Bush administration’s firing of U.S. attorneys, the Associated Press is reporting.
The news service is quoting an official close to the investigation who says that prosecutor Nora Dannehy has…
Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said the Bush administration should have abandoned the idea of firing U.S. Attorneys in 2008 because they could not count on Republicans to stop an investigation. His comments appear in Esquire’s Meaning of…
Controversial former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will appear in Hobbs on Sept. 10 and speak at the Hispano Chamber of Commerce’s annual banquet, the Associated Press is reporting.
It appears that a documentary about the U.S. attorney scandal that plagued the Bush administration is going to be quite revealing — or salacious, depending on your point of view.
The full version of The Associated Press story detailing a subpoena of former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici’s records is now available.
It looks like Domenici isn’t the main target of the investigation by federal prosecutor Nora R. Dannehy —…
A blistering 392-page report released Monday by federal investigators left the impression that the White House knew of David Iglesias’ firing as U.S. Attorney for New Mexico before it got official word — a finding for which investigators can thank U.S. Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.M.
U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey has named a special prosecutor in the case of the U.S. attorney firings to determine if criminal charges should be brought against former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, The New York Times is reporting.
Mukasey’s…
Did you know that a reason given for former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias’ firing was that he was considered an “absentee landlord” in the parlance of the Bush administration’s Department of Justice? But a new Department of Justice report…
