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The New Mexico Independent going forward

By | 11.16.11

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…

EIB hears more anti-cap-and-trade testimony

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By | 11.10.11

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…

New Mexico’s largest university low in popularity

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By | 11.10.11

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.

Posts Tagged Guantanamo Bay

No criminal charges in of Bush-era firings of U.S. Attorneys, including David Iglesias

By | 07.21.10 | 1:58 pm

The U.S. Justice Department will file no charges in the Bush administration’s firing of U.S. attorneys, the Associated Press is reporting.

The news service is quoting an official close to the investigation who says that prosecutor Nora Dannehy has…

David Iglesias explains new procedures at Guantanamo

By | 04.27.10 | 4:55 pm

David Iglesias, the former U.S. Attorney from New Mexico, today discussed new rules in put in place by the Obama administration military commissions, The Washington Independent’s Spencer Ackerman reported.

Weh doesn’t want terrorists tried on American soil; other Republicans denounce “scaremongering”

By | 11.18.09 | 4:38 pm

Republican gubernatorial candidate Allen Weh says he is opposed to trying accused terrorist Khalid Sheikh Mohammed in federal civil court, citing a Wall Street Journal opinion piece from Saturday.

“Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to provide a ‘fair’ day…

TODAY’S TOP STORIES: Show us the money!

By | 01.28.09 | 10:06 am

The US House will vote on President Barack Obama’s economic stimulus plan today. The plan contains “$700 million for New Mexico,” the Albuquerque Journal reports.

The Las Cruces County Commissioners have expressed unanimous support for a domestic partnership bill being heard at the Roundhouse today, says the Las Cruces Sun-News.

One man in Alamogordo is terrified that prisoners from Guantanamo Bay may be transferred to an Otero County immigrant detention center when Gitmo closes, according to the Alamogordo News.

The $2.7 billion fence along the border between the US and Mexico is only 69 miles from completion, but it is possible the Obama administration may halt the progress of the controversial fence, the AP reports.

“Proposed legislative cuts target ethnic programs,” says a story in today’s Daily Lobo.

The US Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement has given New Mexico $3.8 million to clean up abandoned coal mines near Lordsburg, T or C, Grants and Soccoro.

TPM analyzes Iglesias’ Gitmo job further

By | 01.21.09 | 3:12 pm

Talking Points Memo (TPM) looked into former U.S. Attorney David Iglesias’ new job of prosecuting detainees at Guantanamo Bay, aka Gitmo.

TPM noted that Iglesias isn’t on the job because of anyone from President Barack Obama’s staff or Obama…