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.
The California congressional delegation has asked the Obama administration to choose their state as the location of a new United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
New Mexico has added 100 government jobs since 2007, making it one of 22 states to have added rather than lost government jobs since the start of the economic crisis in 2007.
The governors of the four U.S. southern border states will join their counterparts from the northern states of Mexico in a conference to be held in Ensenada, Baja California. Gov. Susana Martinez will serve as vice-chair of the conference,…
Recently proposed federal and state family-planning spending cuts would disproportionately hinder low-income Latinas’ access to reproductive care, said several women’s reproductive care
A California bill that would legalize marijuana has lost support since September, according to the final poll of this election cycle by a California polling company, Field Research Corporation. The initiative to legalize marijuana enjoys a comfortable lead…
This year’s annual gathering of Mexican and U.S. border state governors seemed star crossed from the start.
Scheduled for Phoenix this year, Arizona cancelled hosting the event after its toughest-in-the-nation anti-immigration law stirred protests and controversy. So New Mexico stepped…
Sens. Barbara Boxer and Dianne Feinstein, both California Democrats, said yesterday that they would soon introduce legislation on pipeline safety. The legislation will be modeled after the proposal sent to Congress by the Department of Transportation yesterday.
Nearly one in four Californians — 8.4 million or 24.3 percent — lacks health insurance and the rate of uninsured in many California counties is even larger than that statewide average according to a study reported on by the…
California is losing film business. And New Mexico is partly to blame, says a new report touted by Gov. Bill Richardson.
“Rival locations (especially Canada, New York, Georgia, Louisiana, North Carolina, and New Mexico) now offer an attractive combination of…
It’s unclear whether Robert Reza, the shooter in last week’s rampage that left two dead in Albuquerque, was one of the more than 17,000 individuals in New Mexico permitted to carry a concealed weapon. And you likely won’t ever know. Information about who can legally carry a concealed weapon in the state, including names, is confidential under state law (29-19-6, Subsection B). While New Mexico’s decision to make information on concealed-carry applications confidential appears in line with many surrounding states, it is by no means universal, a survey by The Independent has found.
As closing arguments ended Wednesday in the trial on the constitutionality of Proposition 8, California’s voter-approved ban of same-sex marriage, the judge in the case wanted to know why defenders of the initiative put up only one witness during the…
A recent story aired on National Public Radio about New Mexico’s innovative medical marijuana program again looked at the state’s program being one of the strictest in the country.
NPR held New Mexico up as the anti-California, telling its listeners…
Arizona could allow the use of marijuana if voters approve of a measure that qualified Tuesday for the November ballot. In order to get the issue on the ballot, supporters gathered more than 250,000 signatures, the Arizona Republic reports.
The California Democratic Party for the first time formalized its opposition to the death penalty by writing it into its platform last month, the San Francisco Chronicle reports.
The position defies conventional wisdom and has raised questions about how…
In Washington, President Obama has overhauled the nation’s nuclear policy, including for the first time declaring that the U.S. won’t use nuclear weapons against nonnuclear states that aren’t trying to acquire such weapons, even if they attack the U.S. using…
Businesses in California, Hawaii, even Georgia, are responding to Friday furlough days for state workers by offering discounts and other benefits, according to the Wall Street Journal. The paper calls it an unintended benefit of furlough days. Well, we’ll…
California state lawmakers once again topped the list of best-paid legislators in the nation, reports the New York Times, with salaries of $95,000 a year for the rank and file. Meanwhile, New Mexico is one of the few states…
Talk about re-framing the debate, supporters of legalizing marijuana in California have ditched old arguments of harmlessness to tout the potential monetary windfall that taxing cannabis could bring to a state struggling with a $20 billion budgetary shortfall, the…
As more and more states, like New Mexico, take the beginning steps in creating a medical marijuana program, the state that first allowed the drug for medicinal use 14 years ago is considering legalizing it entirely. Once Los Angeles County…
Want another fact to remind you that New Mexico isn’t as bad off as other states? New figures released by California on Wednesday showed that in eight counties, more than 1 in 5 people were out of work, the…
