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.
A staffer for Congressman Martin Heinrich, D-N.M., will meet with anti-gay marriage activist Bob King according to the Washington D.C. blog DCist.com. The Washington D.C. city council voted to approve gay marriage earlier this month and King is a…
“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…
At last night’s mayoral forum, the three candidates were asked if they would support efforts at the New Mexico state legislature to give gay people the right to marry.
Former state senate president pro tem Richard Romero said unequivocally that he did support gay marriage.
Two-term State Rep. Richard Berry said just as unequivocally that he didn’t.
But incumbent mayor Martin Chavez gave a classic political response, perhaps indicating he has political ambitions that beyond the Albuquerque mayor’s office. He gave his full support to equality and civil rights for the GLBT community without ever uttering the quotable term “gay marriage.”
On Wednesday afternoon the New Hampshire Legislature passed a bill allowing gay couples to marry and Gov. John Lynch signed the bill into law.
The Washington, D.C. City Council voted this morning to recognize gay marriages performed elsewhere. The Washington City Paper provided live updates from the meeting where former mayor and current councilor Marion Barry spoke out against the resolution, only to…
New Hampshire may be the third state in a month to legalize gay marriage, the New York Times reports. That state’s Senate this afternoon passed a a bill that would allow same-sex couples to marry; it will now go…
The State of New Mexico will soon be offering retirement health benefits to domestic partners of state employees, both straight and gay. The move is part of the settlement of a lawsuit brought by the American Civil Liberties Union…
With the recent additions of Iowa and Vermont (not to mention Washington D.C.) to the ranks of states that allow same-sex marriage, some New Mexico Democrats hope the Land of Enchantment joins that short list soon.
If I didn’t live in New Mexico where even the notion of recognizing domestic partnerships provokes major controversy and ends in lopsided defeat, I’d be tempted to think that those who push for something called marriage equality have the…
Whether New Mexico’s Catholic Church is on the side of Democrats or Republicans when it comes to issues like abortion, homosexuality and capital punishment, is beside the point. The issue isn’t ideology; it’s law: Is the church or is it not violating the constitutional separation of church and state?
In a unanimous decision released Friday morning, the Iowa Supreme Court has cleared the way for same-sex couples to marry across the state beginning later this month.
In San Francisco today, the California Supreme Court will consider arguments for overturning Proposition 8, the ballot initiative passed last year redefining marriage as between one man and one woman.
It was the state Supreme Court that had previously declared…
Most analysts are pointing to the influence of religion when explaining the defeat of the domestic partnership bill by the state Senate. But a breakdown of the vote shows a clear regional division — specifically, the split among rural…
With a new crop of fresh faces coming to the Roundhouse, 2009 may be the year that New Mexico finally recognizes domestic partnerships. According to Whitney Potter of the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico, “This legislation would provide basic protections — it’s fundamentally about equality and fairness under the law.”
It’s back to the drawing board in California over the rights of gay couples. The citizens of that state continue their fight over gay marriage, passing an amendment to the state constitution yesterday that defines marriage as an institution solely…
