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.
Gov. Susana Martinez is the only U.S. governor in attendance at this year’s Border Governors Conference in Ensenada, Baja California, Mexico, which brings together representatives from the governments of the states along the U.S.-Mexican border.
The governors of the four U.S. southern border states will join their counterparts from the northern states of Mexico in a conference to be held in Ensenada, Baja California. Gov. Susana Martinez will serve as vice-chair of the conference,…
At the Florida tea party debate on Monday, GOP presidential candidate and Minnesota congresswoman Michele Bachmann criticized policies allowing undocumented immigrants to receive in-state tuition for public universities by hearkening back to a previous era.
Earlier today, we reported that Merck, the manufacturer of the human papillomavirus vaccine that Gov. Rick Perry attempted to mandate for Texas girls in 2007, has given more than the $5,000 Perry said it had given him Monday night.
During Monday night’s CNN/Tea Party GOP debate, Republican presidential contender Michele Bachmann took aim at Gov. Rick Perry’s 2007 executive order requiring middle school girls to be vaccinated against the human papilloma virus (HPV), the most frequent sexually transmitted disease…
Though Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been in the race for the Republican nomination for president for two-and-a-half weeks, John Ellis of Business Insider thinks the nomination is his to lose. He games out the primary calendar:
In his book “Fed Up!,” Rick Perry called Social Security a Ponzi scheme and said it was unconstitutional, but now that he’s got his eye on the White House, Perry and his campaign are distancing from those statements.
Gov. Rick Perry delivered his signature anti-Washington, states’-rights rhetoric to a packed theater at the National Conference for State Legislatures in San Antonio Wednesday, lauding Texas as the “epicenter of job growth,” pointing to 40 percent increase of new jobs created in the state as proof. Perry has been fond of peddling that figure on his way to a likely presidential bid, but it’s a misleading measure of Texas’ jobs.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry blasted out a statement opposing the new reporting rules for multiple semiautomatic gun purchases in states bordering Mexico. “Singling out border states and targeting legal gun sales and sellers will have little or no impact on the Mexican cartels transporting drugs, guns and cash to and from major cities throughout the U.S.,” he said.
Most New Mexicans still have a favorable view of former Gov. Gary Johnson, whereas other 2012 GOP presidential hopefuls are all unpopular, according to Public Policy Polling.
This year’s annual gathering of Mexican and U.S. border state governors seemed star crossed from the start.
Scheduled for Phoenix this year, Arizona cancelled hosting the event after its toughest-in-the-nation anti-immigration law stirred protests and controversy. So New Mexico stepped…
An annual border governor’s conference will be hosted in Santa Fe, not Arizona, Gov. Richardson has announced. Originally the meeting was to be held in Arizona, but it was canceled after Mexican governors said they would boycott because of Arizona’s…
The Texas Republican convention was meant to bring the state’s GOP together to focus on the November elections. On Friday, two former political opponents, Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, reconciled after a heated gubernatorial primary. And Perry’s…
While the New Mexico Rail Runner Express, the commuter train that runs from Belen to Santa Fe, has been one of Gov. Bill Richardson’s most visible accomplishments as governor, Richardson joined U.S. Senator Tom Udall in announcing plans to…
The non-profit Web site Stateline.org took a look at Twitter as a political tool recently.
Gov. Bill Richardson and the other three governors who serve in states that border Mexico sent a letter (pdf) to congressional leaders Wednesday, urging them to “fully fund the National Guard Counter-Drug Program to add additional personnel to the…
Will New Mexicans soon need a passport to go to Austin? Would the Dallas Cowboys no longer be “America’s Team?”
