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.
President Barack Obama, dogged by persistent rumors he is a Muslim, explained why he is a Christian during an hour-long discussion with residents in an Albuquerque front yard Tuesday.
“I’m a Christian by choice,” the president said. “I came to my Christian faith later in life. And it was because the precepts of Jesus Christ spoke to me in terms of the kind of life that I would want to lead: being my brothers’ and sisters’ keeper, treating others as they would treat me.”
In 2009, the Knights of Columbus donated $1.4 million to the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), a nonprofit group dedicated to fighting same-sex marriage through the ballot initiative system in California, Maine and other states. That’s nearly half of the total charitable contributions to the anti-gay-marriage group, and it’s more than the Knights spent on some of its own programs, including food banks or education initiatives.
According to a study by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life, New Mexicans are slightly less religious than folks in other states around the nation. Out of those polled, 53 percent of New Mexicans say religion is very…
One of the many eye-catching slogans at the Albuquerque “tea party” on Wednesday was “Global warming is a socialist scam.” Versions of it were on several hand-held signs. Those signs were still in mind this morning when the Pew Research…
