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.
Democrats will still hold a majority in both chambers during the lame-duck session, when leaders hope to pass the DREAM Act to give some undocumented young people and military service members legal status. But after January, immigration reform efforts that include paths to legal status for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the United States seem next to impossible, meaning the next few years will see little progress for immigration reform advocates.
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson will co-host a Border Governors Conference on September 19-20 in Santa Fe. Leaders from Mexico and U.S. border states will discuss border security, economic development and energy.
The meeting will be paid…
A federal judge in Arizona has blocked some of the most controversial elements of an immigration law that goes into effect tomorrow.
U.S. District Judge Susan Bolton issued a preliminary injunction to prevent the state from requiring that people…
This weekend Democratic governors articulated serious concerns about the federal challenge to Arizona’s new immigration law during a meeting of the National Governors Association, the New York Times is reporting.
But Gov. Bill Richardson wasn’t among them, calling his fellow Democrats’…
Gov. Bill Richardson will appear tonight on MSNBC’s Countdown with Keith Olbermann to discuss the annual border governor’s meeting between American and Mexican governors. Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer canceled the conference after Mexican governors said they would not attend…
The New Mexico Independent’s fifth weekly podcast includes a discussion of the state budget, New Mexico’s new plan to track childhood obesity rates and the latest news on the Arizona immigration law.
New Mexico Independent senior reporter Trip Jennings joined…
“The most important dynamic is going to be, can the Republicans take advantage of having two Hispanics at the top of the ticket? That’s probably never happened anywhere in the country.”
So says Gov. Bill Richardson, discussing Republican candidates…
By a vote of 5 to 4, the Albuquerque City Council voted down a challenge to Mayor Richard Berry’s policy of checking immigration status of everyone arrested, regardless of nationality, according to the Albuquerque Journal.
The vote was along…
Gallup, New Mexico won’t be scheduling or attending any “trainings, seminars, conferences or meeting located within the state of Arizona,” Gallup City Manager David Pederson said in a letter to Arizona Governor Jan Brewer, dated April 28. The city, about…
The New Mexico Independent’s fifth weekly podcast includes a discussion of the state budget, New Mexico’s new plan to track childhood obesity rates and the latest news on the Arizona immigration law.