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.
Independent Republican groups, working in coordination, have been spending tens of millions of dollars on election ads throughout the country—and hundreds of thousands of dollars in New Mexico. Democrat-leaning groups have spent too, but not nearly as much.
Out-of-state groups have conducted a shadow campaign in the 1st and 2nd Congressional District contests this year, dumping nearly $4 million to sway the outcome of the two races, records show. The tsunami of cash is part of a growing trend nationally in which outside groups swoop in to hot congressional race to run what are usually attack ads, pay for mass mailings or conduct surveys. And it has election and campaign finance reformers concerned.
Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund is spending $125,0000 on a second TV ad attacking former GOP Congressman and current candidate Steve Pearce as “one of the most corrupt members of Congress.” Pearce, the ad says, took campaign contributions from…
Amanda Fenner of Edgewood thought she was being pranked when called Monday with news she had just won a 2008 Toyota Prius, an electioneering gift from the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund. “I thought it was somebody who was calling…
