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.
Secretary of Labor Hilda L. Solis today signed an agreement with the IRS and nine state agencies to “improve departmental efforts to end the business practice of misclassifying employees in order to avoid providing employment protections.” A Department of Labor press release adds that “signatory states are Connecticut, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, Missouri, Utah and Washington
On the week of the one-year anniversary of Arizona’s controversial anti-immigration bill — which has provoked copycats throughout the country — Republican Gov. Jan Brewer signed controversial legislation concerning the political clout of religious institutions, among other issues.
New Mexico Assistant Attorney General Elizabeth Korsmo has ordered the U.S. Navy Veterans Association charity to stop fundraising in New Mexico, the St. Petersburg Times reported today. The paper’s investigative series on the charity found that telemarketers and fund-raising companies hired by the group keep up to 90 percent of the money raised from donors, and that most of the organization’s offices around the nation are little more than mail drops. The group’s members, officers and auditors could not be found by reporters.
The New Mexico chapter is listed as donating $132,506 in food, shelter, clothing, direct cash assistance and medical and dental care to indigent veterans and families in New Mexico, according to IRS records obtained by The Independent. However, no details are offered about where exactly the money and donations were spent, or what hospitals or health clinics were paid. More …
Andy Birkey of the Minnesota Independent has a round up of Sunday’s Pulpit Initiative in which a group encouraged pastors to endorse candidates from the pulpit.
Birkey writes:
Americans United for the Separation of Church and State filed formal
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The so-called “Pulpit Initiative,” an effort by the conservative Alliance Defense Fund, is encouraging pastors nationwide to embrace their First Amendment rights and endorse political candidates this Sunday.
