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.
A previously unknown federal criminal investigation surrounding Gov. Bill Richardson‘s nomination as President Obama’s Commerce Secretary has ended with no criminal indictments, the Albuquerque Journal reports.
The inquiry in question, which reporter investigative reporter Mike Gallagher pieced together…
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…
The award seemingly came out of nowhere. But press secretary Robert Gibbs woke up President Barack Obama at 6 a.m. to tell him the news, the New York Times reports.
The last sitting American president to win the award…
The Rev. Holly Beaumont of Santa Fe represented the New Mexico Conference of Churches in a delegation of 33 religious leaders meeting in Washington this week to urge President Obama to launch an independent, non-partisan investigation.
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.
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That was the sound that accompanied the collective slap against the forehead from the nation’s national security community when news came out Tuesday that a 266-page report laying out details of the nation’s network of nuclear sites and programs…
A Gallup poll released today reveals that President Obama’s average approval ratings in May are higher than his three most recent predecessors’ were, but not as high as those earned by Reagan, Kennedy and Eisenhower. Kennedy was the most popular,…
President Obama spent this morning making a speech about credit card reform and taking questions from the audience at Rio Rancho High School. Watching along, we had a conversation with some consumer advocates. Click the headline to read the transcript.
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.
A last-minute move to save the College of Santa Fe at the Legislature is likely to fail, meaning that the state’s oldest institution of higher learning may be foreclosed on soon, KRQE-TV reports. In fact, an attempt to amend…
As Matt Reichbach blogged an hour ago, President Obama today reversed a federal ban on allowing states to set their own vehicle emission standards, which could clear the way for New Mexico to impose its own standards as soon…
