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.
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson is hoping that he nets a lot of cash in Vegas — by appealing to poker players for donations. He is attending the TwoPlusTwo.com World Series of Poker party on Thursday night at the Wynn Poker Room and devoting a page of his website to poker players’ rights.
The Taos News reports on Tuesday the Taos Municipal Board of Education rejected a contract from the teacher’s union that would have prevented salary cuts while taking away rewards for education and experience.
The Santa Fe Public Schools District…
New Mexico’s Open Meetings Act is meant to help ensure public involvement and to prevent backroom deals in state and local government, but violations of the law are widespread, an investigation by The Independent has found. School boards, universities, town councils, county and state commissions, and boards across the state have broken the law, casting a shroud of secrecy over government officials’ deliberations and bargaining.
President Barack Obama was in Las Vegas, Nevada, today — and while there, he stayed at the Palms Casino Resort, which is owned by a name familiar to New Mexicans — the Maloof family. The Maloofs, who
The Las Vegas Optic will no longer be a daily newspaper come March 2, according to the publisher. The paper, which currently runs every weekday, will go to a three-day-a-week format, Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays. The paper will also…
Michelle Obama, the wife of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, will be in Las Vegas, N.M., on Tuesday for an “Early Vote for Change Rally.” This is her third visit to New Mexico this year.
The rally will begin at…
