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.
Will delays in mailing out absentee ballots mean that people who tried to vote in Doña Ana County don’t get to cast a ballot in Tuesday’s election? That’s the question Democrats, Republicans and others are trying to process since learning on Friday that the county’s Bureau of Elections hasn’t complied this election cycle with a state statute that requires that absentee ballots be mailed out within 24 hours of the office receiving requests for the ballots.
Mary Herrera said in an interview that her office has received a large volume of complaints this week from voters having problems in Doña Ana County, primarily with absentee voting. While Herrera said the county’s acting elections supervisor, Mario Jimenez, and his staff are doing an excellent job, she believes they are stretched too thin.
