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The New Mexico Independent going forward

By | 11.16.11

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…

EIB hears more anti-cap-and-trade testimony

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By | 11.10.11

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…

New Mexico’s largest university low in popularity

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By | 11.10.11

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.

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Palin using plane, not bus for some “bus tour” travel

By | 11.30.09 | 3:31 pm

A report in The Daily Beast this morning showed that Sarah Palin is less John Madden and a more automotive industry executive — at least when it comes to what was billed as a “bus tour” for…

Sarah Palin to visit Roswell Dec. 1

By | 11.18.09 | 8:40 am

Sarah Palin is headed to a town near you… provided you live in the conservative town of Roswell, New Mexico.

Steve Terrell of the Santa Fe New Mexican reported today that the former Republican Vice-Presidential candidate is headed to…

Roswell still the home of alien theories

By | 05.28.09 | 8:01 am

alien-pic3Roswell, New Mexico has been the site of rumors of an alien crash for decades. The Roswell UFO incident has over the years achieved mythic properties, even spawning a television show of the same name.

And, it seems,…

LULAC alleges racial profiling in Roswell

By | 04.03.09 | 12:26 pm

The League of United Latin American Citizens, or LULAC, is asking the U.S. Department of Justice to look into racial profiling in Roswell.

The Associated Press reports that Paul Martinez, the New Mexico director of LULAC, sent a letter…

UFO believers back Bill Richardson for a Cabinet post

By | 12.01.08 | 2:44 pm

The truth is out there, some believe. And Bill Richardson might just be the guy to help release that truth.

According to an article in the Sunday Telegraph, extra-terrestrial life aficionados are all behind a Richardson Cabinet-level…

Dirty tricks? Some voters in Roswell told to vote on Nov. 8

By | 11.04.08 | 5:48 pm

At least five people in the Roswell area, all registered Democrats, received phone calls over the weekend telling them to vote on Nov.8, Carter Bundy of the New Mexico Federation of Labor and Election Protection tells NMI.

It came from outer space

By | 10.09.08 | 10:40 am

In its seeming never-ending quest to keep the alien myth alive, the Roswell Daily Record recently provided a breathless account of weird rock splatters found by a U.S. researcher and British writer near Socorro. Physicist R. Ronald Rau, one…

TODAY’S TOP STORIES: Who won? Who got a bump?

By | 10.08.08 | 9:00 am

The big news this morning is last night’s presidential debate. Who won? Who got a bump? Who rescued his plummeting poll numbers? Did the country’s six remaining undecided voters decide? For some answers we can turn to the