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The New Mexico Independent going forward

By | 11.16.11

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…

EIB hears more anti-cap-and-trade testimony

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By | 11.10.11

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…

New Mexico’s largest university low in popularity

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By | 11.10.11

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.

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Domestic partnership bill on life support

By | 02.02.10 | 8:00 pm

Republicans and conservative Democrats on Tuesday used a Senate Committee viewed as a friendly forum to seriously endanger domestic partnership legislation. Before sending the legislation on to Senate Judiciary Committee a 5-4 vote, the Senate Public Affairs Committee approved sending the 816-page bill to a third committee, the kiss of death during a 30-day session.

Politics & religion go together? Pew survey says not so much

By | 10.07.08 | 1:48 pm

Despite the political endorsements of about two dozen pastors from their pulpits on September 28, including one in Rio Rancho, most Americans think politics should be kept out of churches.

A survey conducted by the Pew Forum on

Pastors endorse candidate and flout federal tax law

By | 09.29.08 | 9:15 am

While it appears no New Mexico clergy members took up a conservative group’s encouragement to endorse a political candidate on Sunday, nearly three dozen pastors across the country did endorse someone and flouted a federal tax law, the Washington Post…

Politics in God’s house

By | 09.26.08 | 3:28 pm

The so-called “Pulpit Initiative,” an effort by the conservative Alliance Defense Fund, is encouraging pastors nationwide to embrace their First Amendment rights and endorse political candidates this Sunday.