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.
An Albuquerque grand jury indicted three men with 386 counts of fraud, forgery, conspiracy, making false affidavit perjury and altered, forged or fictitious New Mexico driver’s licenses for over 60 Chinese immigrants living in New York, reports the AP.
In Portland, Maine, where legal immigrants make up about 15 percent of the population, the progressive groups Maine People’s Alliance and the League of Young Voters are working to encourage voters to extend voting rights to legal immigrants who have…
California state lawmakers once again topped the list of best-paid legislators in the nation, reports the New York Times, with salaries of $95,000 a year for the rank and file. Meanwhile, New Mexico is one of the few states…
Attorney General Gary King might ask for increased powers to prosecute financial fraud, spokesman Phil Sisneros told The Independent this week.
“Turns out the Martin Act is something we have been studying to see if there are applications for N.M.,”…
Colorado lawmakers recently decided to impose an online sales tax, a move that is generating a battle in Denver and highlighting the pressure states face to find new revenues. The New Mexico Legislature considered a bill to tax online sales during the 30-day regular session, but the bill never got out of the first committee assigned to study it. Rep. Eleanor Chavez, D-Albuquerque, who sponsored that legislation, said she’s planning on introducing a similar bill in 2011 if she’s re-elected.
Senators from both parties are pushing to free up billions of dollars for federal highway projects, as Congress looks to infrastructure investment to combat double-digit unemployment, according to the Wall Street Journal. Federal highway funds to states could drop…
Occasionally one hears about how underfunded New Mexico’s public defenders are, but it’s unclear if New Mexico’s system is as bad off as Missouri’s vastly underfunded public defenders. A new report says that state’s criminal justice system is at…
Anyone who reads my blog will know that I did not support Barack Obama in last year’s election, but that I was gracious in defeat and more restrained in my criticism than many conservative voices online. I was willing to give him his hundred days. Now he’s had them.
There are still a couple of U.S. House seats awaiting the verdict of a special election. The 20th Congressional District in New York is the most competitive of those open seats, with both Republicans and Democrats putting significant effort into…
