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.
Albuquerque’s public financing system is set up so that if outside groups spend a certain amount of money on behalf of a candidate — by sending campaign mail, for example — then the other candidates will receive matching funds in the same amount. But if that mail is sent from an organization only to its members, that expenditure can’t be tracked, and therefore can’t trigger matching funds. It’s a loophole in the law that can likely never be closed because of strong First Amendment protection of free speech, experts say.
