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.
Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) appeared on the Today Show Tuesday morning and was asked about his comments Saturday that there was “substantial evidence” that some forest fires had been started by illegal immigrants. A Forest Service spokesman told ABC News that there was “no evidence” for McCain’s claim.
“First of all we are concerned particularly about areas down on the border where there is substantial evidence that some of these fires are caused by people who have crossed our border illegally,” John McCain said in a statement contracticted by the U.S. Forest Service. “They have set fires because they want to signal others; they have set fires to keep warm; and they have set fires in order to divert law enforcement agents and agencies from them. So the answer to that part of the problem is: get a secure border.”
New Mexico voting rights advocates reported this morning that there have been few problems reported so far on this election day. Nationally, the McCain/Palin campaign held a conference call with reporters on the subject of vote fraud—without saying anything about any actual vote fraud. And poll workers in Albuquerque’s North Valley blame early voting for a slow day at the polls.
Saying “it is John McCain’s time,” the Silver City Daily Press has endorsed the self-proclaimed maverick, joining the Roswell Daily Record as the second New Mexico daily newspaper to back the GOP candidate for president.
But in its own maverick…
This past weekend’s daily newspaper endorsements for the nation’s next president kept Barack Obama solidly in the lead, with 50 more papers for Obama in one day, including two that were solidly for George W. Bush in 2004, according to…
Demonization campaigns – typically short on facts and long on hate – seem to have made the leap from our e-mail boxes to the campaign trail, this time with Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin pushing the “send” button. Her…
Pastor Robert Hall did something this past Sunday that few clergy do for fear of running afoul of the federal government. He endorsed candidates from the pulpit. And with those words of support, Hall may have just made himself a target of the IRS. But is he worried?
First Republican presidential candidate John McCain couldn’t say how many homes he and his beer heiress wife own. Now the Democratic National Committee is making a big fuss over a report that the McCains own 13 cars. OK, they’re rich.…
