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.
Yesterday, Susana Martinez gave her first State of the State Address as governor. The nearly 40 minute video has been put online thanks to the folks at KNME’s New Mexico In Focus.
Outgoing Gov. Bill Richardson met with Governor-elect Susana Martinez yesterday at the State Capitol, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports.
The relaxed, friendly mood described by the paper offers a striking contrast to the white-hot rhetoric that defined this year’s…
We are very excited to bring you our biggest and best-ever election day coverage this Nov. 2, including an extraordinary live blog in partnership with our colleagues at The Santa Fe New Mexican, which will launch at 9 a.m.…
Steve Pearce’s recent comments appearing to question whether President Barack Obama was born in the United States were the subject of discussion for panelists on the episode of New Mexico in Focus that will air tonight on KNME.
“Is…
“If someone says to you ‘I think my husband…is going to kill me,’ that is the single biggest predictor that it might happen,” Pam Wiseman, director of the New Mexico Coaltion Against Domestic Violence told me in an…
Glenn Walp, a former employee at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has written a book (“Implosion at Los Alamos“) about his experiences investigating security lapses there in the wake of 9/11. The lab is extremely vulnerable to security…
On last Friday’s episode of KNME’s New Mexico in Focus, “The Line” opinion panel discussed a recent case in which three Farmington men were charged with a hate crime after allegedly branding a swastika into the arm of a…
Set your DVR now for 7 p.m. Friday night when KNME’s New Mexico in Focus will air a panel discussion with almost all of the candidates running for lieutenant governor. Correspondent Sarah Gustavus will sit down with Democrats Jose Campos,…
The last two gubernatorial candidates I interviewed for New Mexico in Focus happened to be the two women who now appear to be the front runners. Well, Denish is the only horse in the Democrats’ stable, but Martinez has made…
My 15-minute one-on-one interviews with Lt. Gov. Diane Denish, a Democrat who has no primary opposition, and Susana Martinez, the Doña Ana County district attorney, will air tonight at 7 p.m. on KNME‘s New Mexico in Focus. In…
I’ve been interviewing all the gubernatorial candidates for KNME-TV’s public affairs show, New Mexico in Focus. The first two of the series, 15-minute segments with state Rep. Janice Arnold Jones and Pete Domenici Jr., aired on Friday. Here they are…
During filming for an episode of KNME‘s New Mexico in Focus that airs Friday night, Albuquerque Congressman Martin Heinrich answered a question—submitted via Twitter—about the national debt.
Think New Mexico, a non-profit think tank, counts three Democratic state senators who voted for a budget package that included a food tax, but now say they’re urging Gov. Bill Richardson to veto the measure.
The lawmakers include Sens. Nancy…
Message to New Mexico state lawmakers: Don’t take off next week if New Mexico remains without a state budget for next year.
Gov. Bill Richardson told media Tuesday he’d call state lawmakers back into special session if they don’t…
Elaine Baumgartel and KNME’s New Mexico in Focus talked last week to legislative leaders and analysts about the state budget crisis.
“This hole is huge,” David Abbey of the Legislative Finance Committee said. “I think everyone is working hard to…
“It’s the worst session I’ve ever experienced and this is my 16th one,” Rep. Mimi Stewart, D-Albuquerque said at The Independent’s panel discussion on Wednesday night. “It’s much more partisan. You know Keith [Gardner, House minority whip] and I usually…
Join the staff of The Independent for drinks, snacks and stimulating conversation Wednesday, Jan. 20, from 5 to 8 at Rio Chama Steakhouse. From 5-6 p.m. we’ll mix and mingle. At 6 p.m. we’ll be joined by House Minority…
On Wednesday night The New Mexico Independent hosted a panel discussion with Sen. Eric Griego, Rep. Nora Espinoza, and Richard Anklam of New Mexico Tax Research Institute. We talked about how gross receipts tax increases affect the…
Last week I hosted a panel discussion about South Valley incorporation vote on KNME’s public affairs program, New Mexico in Focus. I was joined by Teresa Cordova, a professor at the UNM School of Architecture and Planning, Mike Ciesielski of…
