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.
As the end of the year and his political career approaches, U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici is all over the news. The newest attention comes in a profile in The Santa Fe New Mexican and a 30-minute interview with Gallup radio reporter John McBreen.
The Albuquerque Journal on Sunday published a special section honoring the retiring U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici. Check it out.
It is something that Republicans, including a number of those in New Mexico, wish would just go away. According to Public Record writer Jason Leopold, a grand jury has issued subpoenas in a probe into the firing of U.S.…
Yates Petroleum Corp. is putting up big money to help establish the Domenici Public Policy Institute at New Mexico State University.
The company has given $500,000 to the effort, the university announced in a news release. The…
The Albuquerque Journal isn’t the only newspaper selling commemorative issues of the front page from Nov. 5 — the day after the history-making election of Barack Obama as president. As one person said, “You can’t keep a Web page…
We’ve known since the first rebuking of the GOP in the 2006 election that 2008 was going to be a Democratic year. We all knew the party of the right would lose some additional ground in the U.S. House and Senate. But as the dust settles in New Mexico, it’s becoming clear that this was a complete slaughter.
Despite the tears and occasional jeers at the New Mexico Republican Party’s election-watch event Tuesday, rays of hope began to emerge. Are any of them ready to heed the call to turn around and get right back into another election? (And, yes, another election is our reward for getting through this one.)
The first rule of any veteran election-night party-goer is this: Don’t show up on time. At 7 p.m., the bar may be open and the buffet full-up, but the real fun won’t start until results start pouring in. For Republicans on Tuesday, the sentiment seemed to be don’t show up at all.
With his 36-year term in the U.S. Senate coming to an end, Sen. Pete Domenici spend the day campaigning as though he was on the ballot. While surely a bittersweet time for him, New Mexico’s senior senator paused to offer the Independent thoughts on the state of the nation and advice to tonight’s eventual victor.
I’m not talking about the trite slogans of the Democratic and Republican presidential candidates. I’m talking about the grassroots uprising of America’s citizens. The number of registered voters is at an all-time high. Political activism is at levels previously unheard of. Early voting in this election is already at record levels.
Club for Growth was a big factor in electing Steve Pearce and others around the nation in Republican primaries. In New Mexico, it endorsed Pearce in April. The group aired ads attacking Heather Wilson, Pearce’s opponent in the Republican…
Hinduism venerates the cow. In the American language, a sacred cow is someone immune from adverse criticism. In New Mexico, the classic example has been Republican Sen. Pete Domenici.
Time magazine today published an interview with N.M. Sen. Pete Domenici on the historic passage of his mental-health parity bill last week. Part of the beyond-massive bailout bill, it culminated a 12-year quest on his part, along with becoming…
When Sen. Pete Domenici announced his retirement a year ago and triggered a domino effect that has made New Mexico one of the most hotly contested states in the 2008 election, who would have thought that Democrats might win the state’s five electoral votes in the presidential race, Domenici’s Senate seat and all three open seats in the U.S. House? Not me.
Right now, it must really suck to be Steve Pearce. Not only is he facing what looks to be an insurmountable lead in his race against Tom Udall, but he can’t even get the love from his own…
In case you missed it, here’s video of U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici, New Mexico’s outgoing senior senator, giving some remarks about a half hour before John McCain spoke at a hastily organized UNM rally yesterday.
Behind the deafening beat of Kenny Loggins’ “Highway to the Danger Zone,” Republican presidential candidate John McCain and wife, Cindy, greeted a few hundred enthusiastic supporters at the University of New Mexico Student Union Building this afternoon and then McCain launched into a 25-minute speech in which he promised to “change Washington” and berated his Democratic challenger, Barrack Obama, as a man of lesser ideas, experience and accomplishments.
Though the U.S. House reversed course Friday and voted to approve the economic bailout bill, New Mexico’s two U.S. Senate candidates refused to switch sides and voted with the minority against it.
According to information provided by U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici’s office, these are the major provisions of the Paul Wellstone and Pete Domenici Mental Health Parity and Addiction Act of 2008. The bill is part of the economic bailout bill passed…
U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici was packing his bags for New Mexico this morning, while still fielding calls from House leaders requesting help to persuade skeptics of the Senate’s economic bailout package. “They’re still calling around, so it makes me wonder,” Domenici said of House leaders in an interview with the New Mexico Independent today. “I thought they had it taken care of.”
