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.
Much of the attention on corn-based ethanol has focused on the role that this supposedly renewable fuel is playing in driving up global food prices.
A new CBS News/New York Times poll shows that 56 percent of Republican voters do not feel enthusiastic about any of the official or prospective GOP candidates running for president in 2012.
Former speaker of the House Republican Newt Gingrich has set up a new Spanish-language website, but his simultaneous wooing of the GOP base and Latino voters “could pose major problems for his likely bid for the White House.”
Sarah Palin may be a weak candidate in a general election in New Mexico, but she would receive significant support in the primary, according to a poll by Public Policy Polling. The survey also shows that though former Gov. Gary Johnson would be the strongest Republican candidate against President Barack Obama in New Mexico, he would be tied for fourth place in a Republican primary.
Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson came in third at the Conservative Political Action Committee straw poll this weekend. Johnson, likely buoyed by the support from thousands of Ron Paul fans, finished well behind Paul — who for the second year came in first.
According to a survey by a Democratic polling firm, President Barack Obama starts off in strong position to win New Mexico in 2012 as he did in 2008. The Public Policy Polling poll shows that Obama has a large lead over the potential Republican presidential candidates polled. The poll also shows that the strongest Republican challenger is former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson.
Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson came in last place in a Presidential straw poll at the Southern Republican Leadership Conference, held in New Orleans this past weekend. Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney won the straw poll—which Nate Silver…
“The support that I’ve found surprising is sitting down with what would be described as right-wing Christian Republicans and finding support. That’s been a surprise,” Johnson said during a visit to Washington, D.C., this week.
The House Committee on Natural Resources is held a hearing on Rep. Martin Heinrich’s Indian housing bill today. The hearing for the Albuquerque Democrat’s bill happened at 8 a.m. New Mexico time, or 10 a.m. for our east coast…
On health care reform, the bad actors seem to get the most attention from the media. In particular, it’s the screamers who don’t want to debate, but instead disrupt, that make the headlines. And that’s not always right.
One of the pages on the New Mexico Republican Party’s Web site is devoted to the words of “great Republicans.” There are the usual suspects there (Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan) along with some more questionable choices — both…
When asked to name the “main person who speaks for the Republican Party today,” 47 percent of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents could not come up with a single name, according to a Gallup/USA Today poll released Wednesday.
Eighteen percent of Democrats,…
When campaign rallies become sounding boards for the vile and heinous utterances of a mob mentality, even then free speech has to be honored.
