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.
All three of New Mexico’s freshman Democratic congressmen have been endorsed by The National Rifle Association’s Political Victory Fund (NRA-PVF). Martin Heinrich, Harry Teague and Ben Ray Luján each received “A” grades from the nation’s largest gun-rights organization.
The NRA cited…
After the hue-and-cry against an exemption for the National Rifle Association in the campaign finance bill, House Democrats expanded the exemption to include more groups, putting prospects for the bill’s passage on life support.
The Washington Post reports that the…
While the National Rifle Association’s campaign advertising disclosure exemption looked like it may have paved the way for the passage of the DISCLOSE Act, The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence and 44 other groups (mostly liberal) have sent…
The Sunlight Foundation pulled no punches in criticizing a reported deal on a federal campaign finance bill that would exempt large groups, such as the National Rifle Association, from disclosing their donors and the ads they pay for. The…
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.
We can’t help but harken back to one of incumbent mayor Martin Chavez’s clever statements on the stump as mayoral endorsements keep rolling in to our virtual newsroom this week.
Characterizing R.J. Berry as on the right, and Richard…
