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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.

Posts Tagged Bush Administration

No criminal charges in of Bush-era firings of U.S. Attorneys, including David Iglesias

By | 07.21.10 | 1:58 pm

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…

Medicare fraudsters in NM stole elderly New Yorker’s identity

By | 06.01.10 | 12:28 pm

The identity of an elderly New Yorker, June Smith, was used for fraudulent Medicare claims in New Mexico, Florida, California and Arizona, the New York Daily News reported Tuesday.

Several of the exams and tests for which the government was billed defied common sense. Smith, a 72-year-old woman, supposedly received up to $50,000 worth of exams, including a pregnancy test, semen analysis and prostate cancer tests. More …

President Obama doesn’t deserve rave reviews on first 100 days

By | 04.28.09 | 1:22 am

Anyone who reads my blog will know that I did not support Barack Obama in last year’s election, but that I was gracious in defeat and more restrained in my criticism than many conservative voices online. I was willing to give him his hundred days. Now he’s had them.