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.
Albuquerque attorney-turned-blogger Jim Scarantino announced Wednesday that he is leaving the New Mexico Watchdog website, a project of the libertarian-leaning Rio Grande Foundation.
“My wife and I have decided to seize an opportunity to enter early ‘aspirement’–the intentionally direct…
On last Friday’s episode of KNME’s New Mexico in Focus, “The Line” opinion panel discussed a recent case in which three Farmington men were charged with a hate crime after allegedly branding a swastika into the arm of a…
The Rio Grande Foundation, a local libertarian think tank that funds The New Mexico Watchdog, seems to have attracted a watchdog of its own in the form of RGFWatch (hat tip to Democracy for New Mexico).
RGFWatch complains that…
According to a post by New Mexico Watchdog, money was given to “phantom districts” in New Mexico (and others nationwide) from the recovery package. At least according to recovery.gov, the Web site designed to track recovery funds.
On…
Following two days of investigation, here’s what I’ve learned about a situation that has gained the attention of Republicans and the media this week. The bottom line: I’m not sure there was a story to begin with.
Lt. Governor Diane Denish said in an interview to be televised on Friday evening that it’s a “patently false lie” that her office used federal taxpayer dollars for campaign Christmas cards.
The interview was conducted by Peter St. Cyr for…
The free market folks at the Rio Grande Foundation have launched an investigative news Web site, New Mexico Watchdog.
At the top of the list of top blogs today is Peter St. Cyr’s posting about a report released by former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici and the Bipartisan Policy Center called “Drowning in Red Ink.” Get St. Cyr’s take…
There’s lots of talk on the blogs about Monday’s ruling that an attempt by the Secretary of State’s Office to force two nonprofits to register as political action committees violates their First Amendment right to free speech.
Today we’re going to go to the conservative side of the blogosphere, and we’ll start with the state’s king of that side of things, Mario Burgos. He’s going after the way stimulus money is being spent:
There’s a lot of buzz on the blogosphere and otherwise about the conservative tea parties — protests and rallies designed to express frustration with the nation’s economic policies. On New Mexico Liberty, Jim Scarantino writes about the “recipe for credible tea parties.”
State loans that don’t produce a return, shady campaign contributions and a request to vote in an online poll… it’s all in today’s to blog roundup!
A blogging battle over what domestic partner benefits would mean for New Mexico and what it means to be a progressive is one of the hottest topics in the New Mexico blogosphere today.
Albuquerque Journal columnist Jim Scarantino…
The dots continue to be connected on Bill Richardson’s withdrawal from his nomination to be commerce secretary. This morning Michael Coleman and Dan Boyd at the Albuquerque Journal confirm what we had all heard: that the Senate —…
“I think he has a personal vendetta going with members of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance and conservationists generally,” says Arturo Sandoval, the man who succeeded Scarantino as chairman of the Coalition for New Mexico Wilderness.
