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 U.S. Department of Justice on Tuesday filed suit against Arizona governor Jan Brewer and the state of Arizona, challenging a new Arizona immigration law, saying it “crossed a constitutional line.”
The brief argues that Arizona law “is preempted by…
U.S. Attorney Ken Gonzales is promising a comprehensive push to reduce crime in Indian Country.
New Mexico will have three new prosecutors tasked with fighting crime on Indian reservations, Gonzales pledged Tuesday — one more than the two announced…
By March 24, the private security corporation formerly known as Blackwater — last seen in Afghanistan shooting civilians and stealing weapons intended for the Afghan police — may win a new Defense Department contract to train the Afghan police. And nearly no one in the government wants to own up to how it could happen.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder was in Albuquerque today to speak to the Hispanic National Bar Association, but he was kept away from reporters and offered no answers to questions about the Department of Justice probe into play-to-pay allegations.
The nation’s top cop said Friday that marijuana dispensaries participating in New Mexico’s fledgling medical marijuana program shouldn’t fear Drug Enforcement Agency raids, a staple of the Bush administration. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking in Albuquerque, said his department is focused “on large traffickers,” not on growers who have a state’s imprimatur to dispense marijuana for medical reasons.
Top-level Obama administration officials in Albuquerque today said they are beefing up the country’s efforts to squeeze the drug flow from Mexico to keep the violent drug cartel turf wars from spilling over onto U.S. soil. All Source Information Center, a.k.a New Mexico’s fusion center, is said to be key to that goal.
Many of the media wondered where Gov. Bill Richardson was Friday when he was a no-show at a University of New Mexico event featuring U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder and Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano. He is…
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder dodged questions Friday on the active pay-to-play investigation involving the New Mexico Mortgage Authority.
Today’s meeting of the Homeland Security Advisory Council, featuring Secretary Janet Napolitano, at the University of New Mexico got started shortly after 10 a.m. Watch the archived video stream here:
U.S. Department of Homeland Security head Janet Napolitano and Attorney General Eric Holder will be in Albuquerque on Friday to unveil President Obama’s 2009 National Southwest Border Counternarcotics Strategy.
The two cabinet-level Obama advisers will also be joined by Office…
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder indicated Wednesday that the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will only target marijuana distributors who violate both federal and state law, which will end raids on medical marijuana dispensaries, The Associated Press reports.
U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder announced last week that the Drug Enforcement Administration would stop shutting down state-approved medical marijuana dispensaries, MSNBC reported last week.
“What the president said during the campaign … will be consistent…
Interested in the Senate confirmation hearings on Obama’s cabinet nominees? Watch them live now. Looks like there’s attorney general nominee Eric Holder, UN representative Susan Rice and chairman of the SEC Mary Schapiro on the menu this morning.
