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.
Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., released a video Tuesday announcing that he will support legislation that would effectively repeal the Defense of Marriage Act. The legislation, called the Respect for Marriage Act, is sponsored by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., and progressive groups have been pressuring their senators to cosponsor the legislation.
Progressive groups are stepping up efforts to repeal the Defense of Marriage Act, the legislation that says no state can be required to recognize same-sex marriage. The groups are asking New Mexico Sens. Tom Udall and Jeff Bingaman, both Democrats, to support a repeal of the controversial law.
The Rio Grande Foundation, a local libertarian think tank that funds The New Mexico Watchdog, seems to have attracted a watchdog of its own in the form of RGFWatch (hat tip to Democracy for New Mexico).
RGFWatch complains that…
Just days after former GOP Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin visited Albuquerque to endorse Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez, former President Bill Clinton headlined an Albuquerque fundraiser for Democratic candidate Diane Denish. Local blogger Barb Wold of…
Former Democratic National Committee chairman and former Vermont governor Howard Dean will be in Albuquerque on February 9, the blog Democracy for New Mexico announced. The blog says Dean will hold three events, two fundraisers and one public event…
“I’m shocked to learn that a campaign flack would not tell me the truth,” The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Steve Terrell writes this morning. Can you taste the sarcasm dripping off that statement?
Terrell was writing about the revelation…
There’s lots going on in the blogosphere today, but much of it has to do with Albuquerque Mayor-elect Richard Berry and the fallout from him resigning his legislative seat days before the special session begins.
There’s lots of coverage of today’s Albuquerque municipal election floating around on the Internet. Here are some of the other things that are going on today on the blogosphere.
• Capital Report New Mexico has an interesting piece about…
Incumbent mayor Martin Chavez has picked up the endorsement of Barb Wold, a local blogger whose site—Democracy for New Mexico—is widely read by Democrats and progressives.
Wold has been highly critical of Chavez in the past, and in 2007…
Things are starting to heat up in the Albuquerque mayor’s race. Today, former Mayor Jim Baca has a posting telling candidate R.J. Berry that he needs to stop “picking out some segment of the population (immigrants) and blaming them…
The Santa Fe Review discusses “The Great Drought of ‘09” today in light of Santa Fe’s driest weather in decades. All about loopholes, construction and bureaucracy, this blog about New Mexico water politics is definitely worth the read.
With questions about where a certain South Carolina governor had been for days leading to quite a revelation last week, Albuquerque radio reporter Peter St. Cyr went on the hunt for where our own Gov. Bill Richardson has been.
The…
An overreaction? Both Cocoposts and Jim Baca think the U.S. Forest Service needs to “chill out” when it comes to the Rainbow Family meeting in the Santa Fe National Forest this week.
If you read one blog today, read this one. Barelas Babe of Duke City Fix writes on a very New Mexican topic: bilingualism. She talks about language hybrids, like Spanglish and others; the language of different generations; and…
NMI’s Marjorie Childress writes on her blog today that the killing of Dr. George Tiller amounts to “domestic terrorism, meant to inspire fear among the broader populace.”
There’s also a political dimension, Childress writes.
Clearly New Mexico’s Tracy Dingmann has the skinny today on a new report about the role of the blogosphere in media criticism. It’s definitely worth the read. The money quote, as highlighted by Dingaman, is about bloggers “crashing…
“It’s raining subpoenas,” The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Kate Nash screams from her blog today.
“You mean you haven’t gotten one yet?” she asks. “Seems like it’s almost in style these days to get a subpoena.”
First for the breaking news: Gov. Bill Richardson has named a new Bernalillo County Commissioner. It’s Maggie Hart Stebbins, and Democracy for New Mexico has the info.
More big news: Peter St. Cyr has the goods…
Want the insider scoop from this weekend’s meeting of the state Democratic Party’s central committee? Lots happened, and Barbara Wold of Democracy for New Mexico has it covered. You can read about a busy congressman, a “powerhouse” acceptance speech from the chairman and the approval of a resolution in support of same-sex marriage.
We’re headed all over the place in this roundup of what’s going on the blogosphere, but let’s start with Earth Day (which, by the way, is tomorrow). SFReeper.com gives the facts on the day and activities planned in Santa Fe. And two state lawmakers author a guest column published today on Democracy for New Mexico about Earth Day and the “new reality in New Mexico.”
