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 spokesman for gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez was fired by the campaign after he was arrested for aggravated DWI early Sunday morning according to the Albuquerque Journal. Raj Shah had only recently been added to the Martinez campaign team.
Prosecutors might have a harder time winning DWI convictions in certain cases because of a decision handed down this week by the state’s top court, the Santa Fe New Mexican tells us.
The court ruling will require prosecutors to…
Rio Arriba County Sheriff Joe Mascarenas, Santa Fe County Sheriff Greg Solano and Valencia County Sheriff Rene Rivera appeared together in Albuquerque today to challenge Doña Ana District Attorney Susana Martinez’ record on prosecuting DWI offenders. The three Democrats attacked one…
Despite moving testimony from Dan Koffman, the father of the only survivor of a June car accident in which a drunk diver killed four Santa Fe teenagers, the Senate Judiciary Committee on Monday tabled one of Sen.
Two bills designed to reform laws related to DWI, brought by Sen. Peter Wirth, D-Santa Fe, made their way through the Senate Public Affairs Committee Tuesday. Neither got out of committee with a “do-pass” recommendation, and each gained an additional…
Sen. Kent Cravens, a Republican from Albuquerque, announced yesterday that he will join the race for lieutenant governor, the AP reports. He joins a field already crowded with nearly a dozen other candidates, mostly Democrats. Cravens has become known…
I neglected to write about this last week, but here’s a bit of good news for New Mexico in the midst of all the not-so-good news.
New Mexico is now officially not one of the 10 states with the highest…
Though New Mexico has seen one of the more infamous drunk driving cases in its history last Sunday, the Los Angeles Times reports that New Mexico may have turned the corner on our state’s notorious drunk driving problem.
New Mexico’s sentencing guidelines need to be revised, and revised immediately. Repeat drunk drivers, the kind who routinely drive with blood alcohol levels well above the legal limit, need to be taken off the streets, and kept off.
After saying last week that she would not release the results of blood alcohol tests on Scott Owens, the 28-year old man involved in a car crash that killed four teenagers, First Judicial District Attorney Spence Pacheco today changed…
The Duke City fix follows up today on the move to cut tax incentives for the film industry in New Mexico. With harsh criticism of such a legislative move, the blog also provides some information on how to actively oppose the bill. Click here for that.
About 1,890 employees and visitors to Los Alamos National Laboratory could have been exposed to beryllium contamination at a storage facility in Los Alamos Canyon, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports.
Meanwhile, superintendent Winston Brooks has ordered 5 percent…
