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.
There is a striking omission in FreedomWorks’ otherwise expansive public agenda: It says nothing about national security or foreign policy. FreedomWorks, the organization most often credited with organizing the revival of an activist conservative grassroots, studiously avoids mention of the country’s two wars, its ballooning defense budget, arms control or the tangle of legal controversy that has outlived the previous administration’s “war on terror”—from Guantanamo to torture.
Hundreds of placard-waving Tea Party activists in Albuquerque weren’t sheepish Thursday about sharing ideas on where to trim government fat. Eliminate the federal Department of Education. Reduce foreign aid. Starve the defense budget. Cut back or phase out big domestic spending programs like Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. They all came up as potential cost-savings measures.
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is adding her voice to prominent jurists who say that states should give up the practice of electing judges, reports the Washington Post. “If there’s a reform I would make, it would be…
There is in our country a deep divide between those who see an activist government as the best solution to most of society’s problems, and those who believe that believe it is not the role of government to engineer a utopian society. The majority of Santa Fesinos fall into the former category, but those of us in the latter comprise a significant and politically active minority. Our daily paper attempts to marginalize us at its own peril.
Will New Mexicans soon need a passport to go to Austin? Would the Dallas Cowboys no longer be “America’s Team?”
