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.
Gov. Bill Richardson announced today that he was “encouraged” after his trip to North Korea, particularly over the country’s decision to respond in “a statesmanlike manner” after South Korea began military exercises.
Outgoing governor Bill Richardson will be headed to North Korea from Dec. 16–20 at a time when tensions between North and South Korea are heightened. The trip is a private visit, according to Richardson’s office.
Outgoing governor Bill Richardson may be heading to North Korea to help head off hostilities between North and South Korea. Richardson has been to North Korea multiple times and was a United States ambassador to the United Nations under Bill Clinton.
Gov. Bill Richardson and U.S. Sen. John Kerry “lobbied fiercely” to get the Obama administration job of envoy to North Korea, but both lost out to former President Jimmy Carter, Foreign Policy magazine reported today.
Carter is in North…
The Obama administration has no plans to send Gov. Bill Richardson to North Korea, an anonymous official told the Agence France Presse (AFP) news agency Monday.
The South Korean JoongAng Daily newspaper reported Monday morning that Obama…
New Mexico Governor and former U.S. United Nations ambassador Bill Richardson may be coming in from the political cold and heading to North Korea.
President Barack Obama is reportedly considering a North Korean request to send Richardson…
Tensions between North Korea and South Korea have escalated sharply this week, but it’s unclear what — if any — role New Mexico Governor and former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Bill Richardson is playing in diplomatic efforts.
Richardson…
“Mr. Richardson has emerged battered but unbeaten after a yearlong federal investigation,” the Times reports today, and “…He has returned to form, political scientists here say. His poll numbers are creeping up, and a national appointment is again a…
North Korean diplomats in New Mexico to meet with Governor Bill Richardson will attend briefings on renewable energy at Santa Fe Community College this morning. The diplomats will hear from several renewable energy experts and business owners, according to a…
According to Governor Bill Richardson, North Korea is prepared to reengage the United States on talks about their nuclear program. Richardson is hosting two North Korean diplomats in Santa Fe to — ostensibly — talk about renewable energy. This…
Two North Korean diplomats are in New Mexico to meet with Bill Richardson according to multiple news outlets. The topic of discussion will be renewable energy.
This comes just weeks after former President Bill Clinton secured the release of…
With the release of the journalists in North Korea, and his diplomatic ties to the secretive nation, Gov. Bill Richardson has suddenly become a favorite of the cable and network TV news shows. Just take a look at his…
There was talk in June about the possibility of sending Gov. Bill Richardson or former Vice President Al Gore to North Korea to negotiate the release of two U.S. journalists who were sentenced to 12…
Gov. Bill Richardson may have kept a low profile in New Mexico in recent days, but he’s edging into the corner of a national spotlight because of events halfway around the globe.
CNN is reporting that Obama administration officials have floated to the North Korean government the idea of sending either Gov. Bill Richardson or former Vice President Al Gore to that nation to negotiate the release of two U.S.…
Largely absent from all the media coverage about the growing threat from North Korea in the last few days is one longtime player in the situation: New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
He’s been the most successful American…
Gov. Bill Richardson is living in political exile, according to a profile that appeared in the Washington Post today. But that apparently has not stopped him from pursuing his passion: foreign affairs.
Gov. Bill Richardson, who revels in the reputation he has earned as a roving international troubleshooter, was less than voluble — terse comes to mind — in his reaction today to North Korea’s missile launch over the weekend.
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has named a special envoy to North Korea, and it isn’t Gov. Bill Richardson.
A spokesman for Gov. Bill Richardson says a report that the governor might be tapped for a special envoy job in the Obama administration is false.
