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.
Politico’s Ben Smith and Byron Tau write how New Mexico Gov. Susana Martinez and Nevada Gov. Brian Sandoval have stayed more popular than other Republican governors elected in 2010 like Florida Gov. Rick Scott and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker.
Dem, Republican volunteers ‘equally aggressive,’ Taos Clerk says
Republican Party operatives from Texas have been training Albuquerque tea party activists as poll challengers for more than two weeks, GOP officials told The Independent Wednesday evening. The Democrats are training challengers of their own. But such “ballot security” efforts do more harm than good, a new study suggests, rarely catching fraudulent voting but frequently discouraging legitimate voters from casting ballots.
The national GOP “blueprint” for victory in the November mid-term elections is coming into focus, Politico says in a piece today. And if that political journal is correct, the only “hot” race in New Mexico is the one in…
Republicans realize their efforts to overturn the nation’s health care law are a long shot. So GOP candidates this year are resorting to a new message they hope resonates with voters: Help us retake Congress so we can choke…
CNN this morning featured a reporter from New Mexico Independent’s sister site, the Michigan Messenger, in its story exploring the use of foreclosure lists to challenge voters at polling sites.
In the CNN piece Messenger reporter Eartha Jane Melzer…
The Associated Press is reporting that James Carabelli, chairman of the Macomb County (Mich.) Republican Party, is suing the Michigan Messenger and its parent organization, the nonprofit Center for Independent Media, over the Messenger’s report last month in…
A firestorm of controversy was set off earlier this month when Michigan Messenger quoted a Michigan Republican Party chairman about using a list of foreclosed homes in an effort to block people people from voting. New Mexico Republicans tell the Independent they have no intention of doing that.
