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.
Former Gov. Bruce King – often called the “cowboy governor” – passed away Friday morning. He was 85.
“Bruce King would be the first one to tell us all that death is just another phase in the cycle of life and that we must go on with our lives, trying to do the best we can while helping others make their way too,” said his son, Attorney General Gary King, in a prepared statement.
“None of us in the family thought this day would come so soon after we lost my mom, Alice King, but we are comforted by the thought that Bruce and Alice can be together once again,” Gary King said.
The body of former N.M. First Lady Alice King will lie in state in the rotunda at the Roundhouse in Santa Fe from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Wednesday, the Albuquerque Journal is reporting. A service will be held Thursday at 9 a.m. in the Moriarty High School gym, which is expected to be filled with about 2,500 people.
Alice King, the wife of former Gov. Bruce King and a tireless advocate on behalf of children, died Sunday night after suffering a massive stroke on Thursday. She was 78. Her death was announced in a news release from her son, state Attorney General Gary King.
