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.
Vice President Joe Biden will be the main attraction at an Albuquerque fundraiser for Diane Denish on Sept. 30. Tickets to the reception are going for $500 ($1,500 if you want your picture taken with the Biden) The event will…
Governor Bill Richardson is in Washington, D.C. today meeting today with Vice President Joe Biden and delivering an address on U.S.-Latin American policy at the Conference on the Americas.
Gov. Richardson met Biden at the White House to discuss New…
Well, it just wouldn’t feel like Tuesday unless the vice president dropped an F-bomb into an open mic on live TV. Speaking this morning at the health care reform bill signing ceremony, Joe Biden turned to President Barack Obama,…
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…
Vice President Joe Biden appeared in Albuquerque for a fundraiser for potentially vulnerable Democratic Congressmen Martin Heinrich and Harry Teague on Monday. Congressman Ben Ray Lujan was in attendance but was not a focus of the fundraising.
The White House is pushing health care reform state by state. The White House provided figures in a press release to media in New Mexico today showing what the White House says is a need for health care reform.
“The…
Vice President Joe Biden praised the state of New Mexico today for quickly allotting the money received for highway and other transportation projects from the recovery bill passed by Congress and signed by President Obama earlier this year.
We’ve known since the first rebuking of the GOP in the 2006 election that 2008 was going to be a Democratic year. We all knew the party of the right would lose some additional ground in the U.S. House and Senate. But as the dust settles in New Mexico, it’s becoming clear that this was a complete slaughter.
Republicans are using a statement Gov. Bill Richardson made today to accuse Barack Obama of lying about tax cuts he has promised most Americans, but a Richardson staffer says the governor simply misspoke in claiming that Obama…
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It appears that Barack Obama and John McCain believe New Mexico’s five electoral votes hinge on what happens in the southern region of the state on Nov. 4. The move appears to parallel a move nationally by Obama as he goes on the offensive in traditionally conservative areas to put McCain on the defensive.
Is John McCain giving up on New Mexico? That’s what CNN’s John King is reporting, but there are lots of signs that McCain is still working hard to win the state’s five electoral votes, including a possible Saturday…
Jerome Block Jr. just can’t seem to get a decent headline. The Democratic candidate for the Public Regulation Commission has been fined $11,000 by Secretary of State Mary Herrera for campaign violations and must return another $10,000 in public financing,…
Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden gave a forceful and energetic speech full of shots at GOP presidential nominee John McCain and substantive policy discussion as he sought to energize voters in southern New Mexico.
The nonpartisan truth factory known as Factcheck.org is as good a place as any to get your Wednesday night debate-watching detectors in gear. (It’s also a decent tool for setting some ground rules for a debate-watching drinking game, but the New Mexico Independent isn’t outright endorsing such potentially irresponsible behavior.)
The Mesilla Plaza will be the location of Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden’s Friday rally in southern New Mexico, Barack Obama’s campaign announced Tuesday tonight.
The “Change We Need” rally is open to the…
Sen. Joe Biden will make his first trip to New Mexico as a vice presidential candidate on Friday.
Biden will visit southern New Mexico on that day, the campaign of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama announced…
Perhaps the most poetic definition of campaign politics was once offered up by former New Mexico Gov. Dave Cargo: “We see a lot of lightning, we hear a lot of thunder, but we feel very little rain.”
It’s time to…
Conservative bloggers are speaking out against the Senate-passed version of the $700 billion bailout plan that contains a plethora of earmarks and other measures, including two of great importance to New Mexico senators Pete Domenici, R-N.M., and Jeff Bingaman,…
The vice presidential debate between Sen. Joe Biden and Gov. Sarah Palin was expected to get large ratings on TV. Political bloggers from the center, left and right also weighed in on who won the debate.
The answers depended on…
