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.
Just days after former GOP Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin visited Albuquerque to endorse Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez, former President Bill Clinton headlined an Albuquerque fundraiser for Democratic candidate Diane Denish. Local blogger Barb Wold of…
A group of progressive Albuquerque elected officials endorsed Albuquerque mayoral candidate Richard Romero yesterday, issuing a statement to the widely read local political Web site Democracy for New Mexico.
Incumbent mayor Martin Chavez has picked up the endorsement of Barb Wold, a local blogger whose site—Democracy for New Mexico—is widely read by Democrats and progressives.
Wold has been highly critical of Chavez in the past, and in 2007…
A blogging battle over what domestic partner benefits would mean for New Mexico and what it means to be a progressive is one of the hottest topics in the New Mexico blogosphere today.
Albuquerque Journal columnist Jim Scarantino…
