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The New Mexico Independent going forward

By | 11.16.11

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…

EIB hears more anti-cap-and-trade testimony

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By | 11.10.11

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…

New Mexico’s largest university low in popularity

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By | 11.10.11

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.

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With RNC faltering, funders look elsewhere

By | 08.02.10 | 8:13 am

The traditional fundraising bulwark for the GOP, the Republican National Committee, is having a bad year, to say the least. This year’s travails have led many conservative donors to believe the RNC is becoming less and less helpful to candidates and less and less relevant to the party itself.

AP calls GOP gov race for Martinez; Weh concedes

By | 06.01.10 | 9:17 pm

The Associated Press has called the Republican gubernatorial primary for Susana Martinez, the Doña Ana County District Attorney. Martinez won a five-way race to face Democratic candidate Diane Denish, who faced only a write-in opponent in the Democratic primary, in…

For conservative donors, latest RNC scandal is the ‘nail in the coffin’

By | 04.02.10 | 9:42 am

The RNC’s field trip to a lesbian-bondage-themed strip club has accelerated and amplified a revolt that had been brewing for months. It’s given the growing number of conservative PACs and projects a new selling point to potential donors. And it’s emboldened the sizable number of loose-lipped Republican activists who are working to create new institutions outside of the chairman’s purview.

Congressional Roundup: Health care vote Saturday

By | 11.06.09 | 4:35 pm

Although some news outlets reported that there would be no vote on health care legislation until Sunday, a unnamed House Aide told MSNBC’s First Read that there will be a vote tomorrow in the House on health care reform.…

N.M. Democratic Party chairman calls GOP ‘the party of Rush’

By | 03.03.09 | 4:49 pm

In an e-mail to supporters with the subject line “The Party of Rush,” New Mexico Democratic Party Chairman Brian Colón echoed Democratic National Committee chairman Tim Kaine, saying that “The Republicans sure seem to be having some real issues…