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.
The Senate Armed Services Committee is scheduled today to consider the bill that includes a repeal of “don’t ask don’t tell.” That’s why a coalition of LGBT-rights organizations pushing to secure passage in the committee, and then later this week…
Visiting loved ones in the hospital when you don’t happen to be immediate family or legally married is about to become easier. President Barack Obama has mandated that any hospital participating in the Medicare or Medicaid programs allow hospital visitation rights to same-sex…
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…
Domestic partnership legislation failed in the Senate today, by a vote of 17 to 25. Click below to read the (very, very long) transcript of our live blog, and to watch a video of the proceedings.
The state Senate is expected to take up domestic-partnership legislation this week, possibly as early as Wednesday morning most likely Thursday morning. Join the New Mexico Independent and The Santa Fe Reporter as we co-host a live…
The vote may come in the State Senate as early as Monday, and supporters and opponents alike say that while they’re hopeful they’ll emerge victorious, nothing is certain.
In case you haven’t already heard, President Bush appears to be softening his anti-gay rights agenda in the waning days of his presidency.
Exhibit A: His signing of the Worker, Retiree and Employer Recovery Act of 2008 into law…
