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 self-described “center right” Hispanic Republican group announced its two New Mexico state coordinators on Thursday.
The College Board, which oversees undergraduate and graduate school entrance exams, released results for the 2011 SATs, revealing mixed news: More students took the test than ever before, posting scores that are some of the lowest in history.
The wealth disparity between white households and black and Hispanic households reached staggering and unprecedented proportions after the housing market meltdown and subsequent recession, according to a new Pew Research Center report which analyzed Census data from 1984 to 2009.
Recently proposed federal and state family-planning spending cuts would disproportionately hinder low-income Latinas’ access to reproductive care, said several women’s reproductive care
Democrats will still hold a majority in both chambers during the lame-duck session, when leaders hope to pass the DREAM Act to give some undocumented young people and military service members legal status. But after January, immigration reform efforts that include paths to legal status for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the United States seem next to impossible, meaning the next few years will see little progress for immigration reform advocates.
Hispanic voters are still overwhelmingly Democratic but are not very enthusiastic about voting in this year’s midterm elections according to a poll conducted by the Pew Hispanic Center.
The poll found that 65 percent of Latino-registered voters say they…
A poll by the Pew Hispanic Center finds little evidence of a boycott of the census by foreign-born Hispanics. The poll finds that 91 percent of foreign Hispanics, versus just 78 percent of those born in the United States,…
Contrary to what the former Bernalillo County Republican Party chairman or the State Senate Majority Whip might think, “Older Hispanics Favor Obama,” says an Albuquerque Journal Poll released today. According to a further analysis of the poll conducted Sept.…
Undocumented immigration is slowing, but the heightened focus on immigration enforcement has engendered widespread worry among the adult Hispanic population in the U.S., according to the Pew Hispanic Center in two reports released during the past month.
Behind the story of the resignation of Fernando C. de Baca, chairman of the Bernalillo County Republican party, is the history of the conflict between Hispanics and blacks in New Mexico that even Obama’s supporters acknowledge
Fernando C. de Baca, chairman of the Bernalillo County Republicans, has resigned. More details to come.
C. de Baca had been under increasing pressure to resign after he was quoted on a Friday blog posting on
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Bernalillo County Republican Party Chairman Fernando C. de Baca won’t resign, and his county party’s executive board voted this morning to back him, setting up a standoff with state GOP leaders who have called for C. de Baca’s resignation.
The chairman of Bernalillo County Republicans is saying a BBC reporter took his remarks out of context. The remarks in question have caused a firestorm and put GOP leader Fernando C de Baca on the hot seat as some…
