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.
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…
Despite the tears and occasional jeers at the New Mexico Republican Party’s election-watch event Tuesday, rays of hope began to emerge. Are any of them ready to heed the call to turn around and get right back into another election? (And, yes, another election is our reward for getting through this one.)
The first rule of any veteran election-night party-goer is this: Don’t show up on time. At 7 p.m., the bar may be open and the buffet full-up, but the real fun won’t start until results start pouring in. For Republicans on Tuesday, the sentiment seemed to be don’t show up at all.
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.
Ask Republican candidates for office what they think their chances are on Tuesday, and even many of those who have no shot at winning — if you believe the polls — express optimism. Ask GOP operatives what they expect on Election Day, and promise them anonymity in exchange for their answers, and you get a much different answer.
Brian Schmidly, son of University of New Mexico President David Schmidly, has backed out of a $94,000 job offer to be “associate director of sustainability” –a position created by his dad last June with the goal to reduce greenhouse…
Got something on your mind? Maybe you want to quiz 3rd Congressional District candidates Ben Ray Lujan and Dan East.
You could get your shot Tuesday.
NM First is holding a town hall with citizens at Rio Rancho High School…
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…
