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 man who lost to Jerome Block Jr. in November for a seat on the state’s Public Regulation Commission (PRC) said Wednesday that the eight indictments of Block handed down today by a grand jury are a “strike” against him, but the PRC chair says Block is doing “a good job.”
As Marjorie Childress noted in NMI’s blog roundup, Democracy for New Mexico highlighted some donations by Val Kilmer to Ralph Nader, even after Democratic nominee and now President Barack Obama secured his party’s nomination.
In fact, the donations…
New Mexico is one of only 16 states that still has a straight-party voting option on its ballots, and Green Party candidate Rick Lass says he will lobby to abolish it. A beheaded man was left hanging from…
Despite challenges to his campaign expenditures by the secretary of state’s office, Democratic Public Regulation Commission candidate Jerome Block Jr. took the northern District 3 Public Regulation Commission seat being vacated by newly elected Congressman Ben Ray Lujan in an…
On Friday night I got a chance to sit down separately with two candidates for the Public Regulation Commission — the Green Party’s Rick Lass and Democrat Jason Marks — for KNME’s “New Mexico In Focus.”
