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.
In the past changing gender has been difficult on a New Mexico driver’s license. But it just got easier.
Last month the New Mexico Motor Vehicles Division established a new form to help facilitate changing a person’s gender designation on a drivers license, prompting cheers from the state’s growing transgender community.
Approximately 100 people turned up at the New Mexico state capital Monday to support domestic partnership bill (SB 183) expected to be heard in the Senate this week.
“We wanted to do something peacefully, and with pretty gold,” Susan Young of Equality New Mexico said of the group’s effort to surround the state capitol with a gold lame fabric engagement ring to bring attention to the issue of marriage…
It’s been almost two months since domestic partnership legislation failed by an 8-vote margin in the New Mexico Senate. But since then, the New Mexico Independent has learned that a committee appointed by New Mexico’s Catholic archbishop has been charged with seeking out a potential compromise with backers of the original bill.
The state Senate is expected to take up domestic-partnership legislation this week, possibly as early as Wednesday morning most likely Thursday morning. Join the New Mexico Independent and The Santa Fe Reporter as we co-host a live…
