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 repeal of “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the U.S. military’s policy of banning openly gay servicemembers, was signed into law late last year. Nevertheless, Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) has already introduced a bill that would require the signature of chiefs of the four branches of the military to sign off on the repeal as well. Republican Rep. Steve Pearce is among 18 cosponsors of the bill.
A vote to pass a defense bill failed to pass cloture because of a provision that would have allowed gays to serve openly in the military. Both New Mexico senators, Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, were among the 57 senators who voted for cloture which would have brought the bill to an up-and-down vote.
The lame duck Congress won’t repeal the don’t ask, don’t tell policy that bars openly gay soldiers from serving in the military. And with Republicans taking control of the House and narrowing the Democrats’ advantage in the Senate, prospects beyond…
The Obama administration could be setting up same-sex marriage advocates for disappointment as it weighs an appeal of a recent decision that ruled unconstitutional parts of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act. Both options for the administration come with risks: Challenging the ruling would be perceived as a major snub by the gay community, whereas standing behind it would give Republicans a powerful political weapon to use against Democrats in the November elections.
On Thursday night the U.S. House voted 234-194 to add a repeal of the policy that bars openly gay men and women from serving in the military to the defense authorization bill. The vote was nearly all on party lines,…
The Senate Armed Services Committee today voted in favor of repealing a ban on gays and lesbians openly serving in the military. The panel voted in a closed session.
The Senate Armed Services Committee is scheduled today to consider the bill that includes a repeal of “don’t ask don’t tell.” That’s why a coalition of LGBT-rights organizations pushing to secure passage in the committee, and then later this week…
Congress and the White House have reached a compromise on repealing “don’t ask, don’t tell,” the policy that says openly gay men and women can’t serve in the military. The measure is moving quickly and could soon come to…
In a major victory for opponents of the military’s ban on open homosexual service, Defense Secretary Robert Gates significantly revised how the Pentagon will implement the so-called “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” law, effectively making it difficult to remove a soldier, sailor, airman or marine who does not out himself or herself as gay.
The Washington Independent is reporting today that Secretary of Defense Robert Gates will relax the enforcement of the Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell policy that bars openly gay men and women from serving in the military. Already, legislators in Washington…
Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., announced Monday that he supports repealing the controversial “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy that bars openly gay people from serving in the military. Udall has signed onto legislation, introduced by Sen. Joe Lieberman,…
Several weeks ago, in advance of today’s National Equality March, New Mexico lesbian, gay, bisexual, transactivists held a town hall meeting at the University of New Mexico campus to collect local stories and concerns to take to Washington, D.C. for the…
Government figures released today show that although women make up only 15 percent of the military, they account for more than one-third of the service members kicked out because they’re gay, the L.A. Times reports today. Women make up…
Congressman Martin Heinrich, D-Albuquerque, is on board with a bill designed to repeal the “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” (DADT) law established in 1993. The law bars openly gay men and women from serving in the military.
Last week, Heinrich’s…
According to Democracy for New Mexico, Congressman Ben Ray Luján, like a majority of Americans, supports the repeal of the “don’t ask, don’t tell” military policy that prohibits lesbians and gay men from serving openly.
