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.
Ojo Sarco resident and rural health policy guru Carol Miller — who served on the Clinton Health Care Task Force in the ’90s – wrote an op-ed in the influential Washington D.C. paper Roll Call about health care reform.
As Marjorie Childress noted in NMI’s blog roundup, Democracy for New Mexico highlighted some donations by Val Kilmer to Ralph Nader, even after Democratic nominee and now President Barack Obama secured his party’s nomination.
In fact, the donations…
When the results in New Mexico came flowing in and showed the Democrats had swept all three U.S. House seats last Tuesday, it came as a shock. Not a shock that it had been done — the possibility had become…
While much of the attention was on the presidential election during the past few months, all political eyes are now on Minnesota, Alaska and Georgia’s U.S. Senate races. Alaska and Minnesota are still counting ballots, while Georgia is readying itself for a special election next month. Here in New Mexico, there was not as much drama in the race for Senate or even, ultimately, any of the open House seats.
What do you say to your supporters after you’ve just suffered a rather sizable defeat at the hands of Barack Obama and the Democratic tidal wave?
Darren White, the 1st Congressional District Republican candidate who lost by…
New Mexico is one of only 16 states that still has a straight-party voting option on its ballots, and Green Party candidate Rick Lass says he will lobby to abolish it. A beheaded man was left hanging from…
Democrats swung at the pitch offered up when longtime Republican Sen. Pete Domenici stepped aside and hit a grand slam Tuesday night, winning all four open congressional seats his retirement created.
Democrat Ben Ray Lujan will represent New Mexico’s Third Congressional District in the House of Representatives, taking the seat vacated by newly elected U.S. senator Tom Udall. In a three-way race, his closest challenger, Republican Dan East, conceded the race at about 10 p.m. Tuesday night, with most New Mexico precincts reporting.
On the phone, Carol Miller told me KOB-TV clearly, intentionally refused to let her join the hour-long program. Confusing, she said, because she saw stories on the KOB Web site about this year’s upsurge in independent candidacies and women’s candidacies and also a report that she’s currently polling in the double digits.
New Mexico’s large crop of would-be federal representatives — including two candidates for U.S. Senate and six House candidates — all react to the proposed $700 billion bailout for Wall Street and the economy in general.
An audit of Bernalillo County ballots shows vote counting machines have a very low margin of error, differing an average of 1.9 percent from hand-counting, according to the Albuquerque Journal. The audit of ballots cast in…
