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 Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund set up camp in New Mexico last spring, its goal was to help elect U.S. Senate candidate Tom Udall as part of a wider effort by environmental groups to pack the Senate with green-leaning members. It did that and more, playing a role in Udall’s victory as well as those of U.S. House candidates Martin Heinrich and Harry Teague.
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.
The U.S. Justice Department is once again sending election observers to Cibola and Sandoval counties as part of an extensive, nationwide effort to monitor Tuesday’s vote.
Some 800 observers from the department’s Civil Rights Division will be deployed in…
On Tuesday a spokesperson for the Democratic National Party accused Republicans of “absolute hypocrisy,” after the the owner of a company paid by the California Republican Party to register voters was arrested on fraud and perjury charges. Prosecutors are investigating whether his firm intentionally re-registered Democrats as Republicans—without their knowledge or consent. The news comes as national Republicans were already retreating from charges of voter fraud in New Mexico.
Pastor Robert Hall did something this past Sunday that few clergy do for fear of running afoul of the federal government. He endorsed candidates from the pulpit. And with those words of support, Hall may have just made himself a target of the IRS. But is he worried?
