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.
According to the Center for American Progress (CAP), a liberal Washington D.C. think tank, the Latino vote will be key in New Mexico and several other states with close electoral races looming in November. New Mexico has the highest…
There have been naysayers who sought to undermine massive voter registration and get-out-the-vote efforts, predicting that Hispanic voters would not turn out at the polls. But on November 4, Hispanic voters proved them wrong. Exit polls report that at least ten million Latinos voted — an increase of 32 percent from 2004.
Once again, New Mexico is one of maybe a dozen battleground states lavished with personal attention by the presidential candidates in the campaign’s final days. No more proof is needed than Saturday’s same-day dueling Albuquerque visits by John McCain in the morning, Barack Obama at night.
