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.
The centrist advocacy group No Labels released a report Tuesday saying that only 175 House members are holding town halls this August. In New Mexico, Reps. Steve Pearce and Ben Ray Luján are, while Rep. Martin Heinrich, who is running for U.S. Senate, is not.
Gov. Susana Martinez, Sens. Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, and Rep. Steve Pearce gathered Monday in Santa Teresa to mark the groundbreaking for a $400 million Union Pacific project near the U.S.-Mexico border. The new 2,200 acre facility will measure 11.5 miles long by one mile wide and “include fueling facilities, crew change buildings, locomotive inspection tracks, an intermodal ramp and a switching yard.”
New Mexico’s congressional delegation split on the debt ceiling deal that passed the House by a 269-161 vote Monday, with most Republicans and half of Democrats voting for the bill.
The Center For Responsive Politics released a report Wednesday illustrating how many members of Congress had grown richer during the recession. Rep. Harry Teague (D-N.M.), who lost his seat to Steve Pearce earlier this month in a rematch of the 2008 election, ranked 13th out of 435 House members in net wealth.
Was their vote against the Wall Street bailout today just pure election year politics on the part of Tom Udall and Steve Pearce?
An analysis by the Washington Post’s Chris Cillizza suggests maybe so, at least in part.
Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama leads his Republican rival, John McCain, by 11 points and in the Senate race, Democratic Rep. Tom Udall leads Republican Rep. Steve Pearce by 20 points, according to a poll released today by Public…
