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.
Not all students have the means or good fortune of attending a four-year institution. To that end, community colleges are a place of learning ideal for individuals on tight budgets in search of more academic opportunities.
With last week’s announcement that the Obama administration is offering states the opportunity to opt out of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) requirements in exchange for more vigorous school accountability and teacher assessment standards, analysts around the nation are…
This week, the Republican Governors Public Policy Committee released a report on Medicaid that outlines cost-saving measures decided upon by 31 Republican governors. Among the policy recommendations is a proposal to require the federal government to pay for the care of undocumented immigrants.
Amanda Terkel of Huffington Post reports that Ray Sandoval, the New Mexico director for Organizing for America, sent out an e-mail on August 1 to supporters imploring them to read a blog post criticizing New York Times columnist Paul Krugman and the “Firebagger Lefty blogosphere.”
A new Public Policy Polling survey shows that more New Mexicans disapprove of President Obama than before, but still favor him for re-election over all Republican contenders. The poll showed that 50 percent approve of the president and 44 percent disapprove, down from a 55/40 split measured by PPP last February.
American Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, a 501(c)(4) group conceived by former Senior Bush Advisor Karl Rove and former RNC chair Ed Gillespie, is running ads this week criticizing President Obama’s handling of the economy in New Mexico and other swing states.
Former governor and 2012 GOP candidate for president Gary Johnson went on the Fox Business Network Thursday night to debate an Obama impersonator, with John Stossel moderating. The weak applause from the studio audience, Stossel’s condescending moderation, the Obama impersonator’s Urkel-esque delivery make this an embarrassing — not to mention un-illuminating — segment. It’s too bad that Johnson wasn’t invited to the CNN debate tonight in New Hampshire, but this is a weak stunt. Call me old-fashioned, but how about just an interview?
Democrats will still hold a majority in both chambers during the lame-duck session, when leaders hope to pass the DREAM Act to give some undocumented young people and military service members legal status. But after January, immigration reform efforts that include paths to legal status for the estimated 11 million illegal immigrants currently in the United States seem next to impossible, meaning the next few years will see little progress for immigration reform advocates.
Raising the retirement age to 70 would disproportionately affect lower income seniors who work in physically demanding jobs they likely wouldn’t be able to continue through their 60s. Already, two-thirds of non-disabled workers choose to start getting lower benefits at 62 instead of waiting for full benefits at 65. And although the average lifespan has increased by about seven years since Social Security’s creation, the poorest 20 percent of Americans are living just two years longer
Many American children are born ‘pre-polluted’ with carcinogens, panel reports.
No new coal plants broke ground in 2009, the Sierra Club said in a statement last week. The group refers to “the coal rush” that it says began in 2001 when 150 proposed coal-fired plants were announced. Since then, 111…
President Obama said today at his town hall in Rio Rancho that he’d like to see the Employee Free Choice Act pass, but that compromise might need to happen on the details of the bill if it’s to pass the…
During remarks about the nation’s national debt and annual deficit at today’s Rio Rancho Town Hall, President Obama took the media to task for only paying attention to earmarks in the federal budget when there are much larger problems, namely…
Here are President Obama’s remarks laying out his three key points about health care reform, at today’s Rio Rancho Town Hall. He made the remarks in response to a question from the audience about health care and single payer systems.…
The message from Latin America Wednesday was that the U.S.-led “war on drugs” is a failure, and a new approach needs to be found.
The Wall Street Journal reports that in a conference call with reporters, three former Latin American…
During the Democratic presidential primary, Obama indicated that the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) wasn’t sacrosanct as far as he was concerned, and that he’d be willing to scuttle it if stronger environmental and labor standards weren’t renegotiated.…
New Mexico might be having a meltdown over Gov. Bill Richardson’s loss of the commerce secretary nomination, but President-elect Barack Obama thinks it’s a joking matter.
Obama’s final words of a 40-minute interview with George Stephanopoulos on the Sunday morning…
Obama has selected U.S. Rep. Hilda Solis, D-Calif., for his labor secretary. Solis is the daughter of immigrants from Mexico and Nicaragua. Her father was a union shop steward, and her mother was an assembly line worker.
Solis…
Given the intensity with which Barack Obama was attacked for his association with former Weather Underground leader Bill Ayers during the campaign — most famously by vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, who accused Obama of “palling around…
Yes, we’re in a serious recession, but Barack Obama and Joe Biden still think you should do your holiday shopping with the DNC. So is this where I should send the last little bit of that stimulus check I got this year? Come to think about it, I haven’t spent the $40 I got from New Mexico yet. Maybe I’ll buy a couple of these with that.
