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 office of Gov. Bill Richardson released the names of the 19 men he granted executive clemency to in his last days of office. Among the names was Edward M. Gilbert, a real estate magnet and the founder of Santa Fe company BKG. Conspicuously absent was Carlos Fierro, an attorney with ties to Richardson who committed vehicular homicide in 2008.
Freelance journalist and occasional contributor to the The Independent, Peter St. Cyr says that Gov. Bill Richardson’s office has been ducking inspection requests related to pardon applications in New Mexico. This comes as Richardson is considering a much-publicized posthumous pardon of Billy the Kid.
Our biggest and best-ever election day coverage begins Nov. 2 at 9 a.m., when we launch an interactive live blog, in partnership with our colleagues at The Santa Fe New Mexican. Join us throughout the day to catch up…
We are very excited to bring you our biggest and best-ever election day coverage this Nov. 2, including an extraordinary live blog in partnership with our colleagues at The Santa Fe New Mexican, which will launch at 9 a.m.…
Hooray! NMI is proud to report that we’ve been selected to receive the annual First Amendment Award, to be given by the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico (ACLU-NM) at its Bill of Rights Celebration in October.
ACLU-NM Executive Director…
On the third day of the 2010 legislative session, the House and Senate each met briefly, but the real action was in a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, where whistleblower Frank Foy told state lawmakers the Richardson administration was stonewalling his request for more information on alleged corruption in state investment funds. Click the headline to read a transcript.
Lt. Governor Diane Denish said in an interview to be televised on Friday evening that it’s a “patently false lie” that her office used federal taxpayer dollars for campaign Christmas cards.
The interview was conducted by Peter St. Cyr for…
At a press conference outside the Roundhouse on Tuesday, the House Republicans released 48 ideas to help close the budget gap.
As NMI has reported, a city contractor, John Bode, has alleged in a deposition that he and his firm were victims of retaliation for not providing free or reduce air flights to Mayor Martin Chavez. Now one of…
New Mexico Attorney General Gary King is saying his office is free of conflict of interests that would weaken its prosecution of former Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron and three other defendants.
The issue of potential conflicts came out…
Albuquerque City Councilor Sally Mayer shocked political observers yesterday when she announced she was dropping out of her bid for reelection to her District 7 council seat.
KKOB 770 news reporter Peter St. Cyr first broke the news, blogging…
At the top of the list of top blogs today is Peter St. Cyr’s posting about a report released by former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici and the Bipartisan Policy Center called “Drowning in Red Ink.” Get St. Cyr’s take…
Last week Gov. Bill Ricardson and U.S. Sen. Tom Udall announced that they’re applying for funds to study the feasibility of creating a high-speed rail line from El Paso to Denver, through Albuquerque. SFReeper.com has an interesting post…
With questions about where a certain South Carolina governor had been for days leading to quite a revelation last week, Albuquerque radio reporter Peter St. Cyr went on the hunt for where our own Gov. Bill Richardson has been.
The…
If you read one blog today, read this one. Barelas Babe of Duke City Fix writes on a very New Mexican topic: bilingualism. She talks about language hybrids, like Spanglish and others; the language of different generations; and…
First for the breaking news: Gov. Bill Richardson has named a new Bernalillo County Commissioner. It’s Maggie Hart Stebbins, and Democracy for New Mexico has the info.
More big news: Peter St. Cyr has the goods…
Between swine flu and the Mexican Army’s battle with the cartels, there’s a lot going on in the nation south of the border. Jose Garcia has it all covered in several postings on his blog. It’s a good…
We’re headed all over the place in this roundup of what’s going on the blogosphere, but let’s start with Earth Day (which, by the way, is tomorrow). SFReeper.com gives the facts on the day and activities planned in Santa Fe. And two state lawmakers author a guest column published today on Democracy for New Mexico about Earth Day and the “new reality in New Mexico.”
Time to wrangle up the end-of-the week blogs and put them out in today’s edition of the NMI blog roundup.
Democracy for New Mexico takes an extensive look at the reason why ethics legislation doesn’t make it past the Legislature.…
The microblogging service Twitter has been growing in stature as a journalism tool around New Mexico, as broadcast reporters, print journalists and of course bloggers have begun covering the state tweet by tweet.
