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.
New Mexico is considering reversing former Gov. Richardson’s cap and trade program on carbon dioxide emissions because the upfront costs are proving too much to bear.
Deputy Secretary of the state’s Environment Department, Butch Tongate, testified before the Environmental Improvement Board…
With the construction of a “spaceport” underway in the southern New Mexico town of Upham, NASA has made moves to take advantage of the new flight center by striking a $4.5 million contract agreement with owners Virgin Galactic.
Two New Mexico-based technology firms have been awarded nearly $4 million in research grants as part of a National Aeronautics and Space Administration project to the update unmanned flight program.
The Dryden Flight Research Center of Edwards Air Force Base…
President Obama awarded Sgt. 1st Class Leroy A. Petry the Medal of Honor yesterday in the White House, only the ninth person (second living) to receive it during the Afghanistan and Iraq Wars.
The Taos News reports on Tuesday the Taos Municipal Board of Education rejected a contract from the teacher’s union that would have prevented salary cuts while taking away rewards for education and experience.
The Santa Fe Public Schools District…
Secretary of State Mary Herrera‘s office will conduct training sessions in Santa Fe and Clovis next week for candidates and campaign officials who are struggling with the state’s new Campaign Finance Information System, Elections Director Don Francisco Trujillo…
U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood caused a stir last month when he announced that he and his office were thinking of giving bicyclists and pedestrians a bigger voice in order to “treat walking and bicycling as equals with other transportation modes.” A new Santa Fe advocacy and education group, Bike Santa Fe, is taking LaHood up on the new vision.
Several hundred people filled the state capital’s historic Plaza for a Tea Party rally on Tax day.
But the event in liberal-leaning Santa Fe (the county voted 76.8 percent for Obama in 2008), found supporters and…
Santa Fe Mayor David Coss is the lone New Mexican to join a group of mayors asking President Barack Obama to do more on gun control. As The Huffington Post reported, Coss signed on to a letter sent by New…
There will be fewer red-light cameras in New Mexico after the state Department of Transportation was given the power to ban red light cameras on any state road, highway or federal interstate. Albuquerque, Santa Fe and Las Cruces will…
Today is election day in Santa Fe and other cities throughout the state (including, notably, Rio Rancho). The Santa Fe New Mexican is doing an election day live blog for the Santa Fe municipal elections. Santa Fe voters, among…
Need more information about the candidates running for mayor in Santa Fe? The Santa Fe Reporter endorsed David Coss for mayor last week, but the paper interviewed all of the candidates and posted the audio of the interviews…
In the final poll before the Santa Fe municipal election, March 2, incumbent mayor David Coss has large leads over both of his opponents. The Santa Fe New Mexican poll of the three candidates shows Coss with 52 percent…
An e-mail blast to supporters from Santa Fe mayor David Coss’s campaign highlights his opponent’s tie to the Santa Fe Tea Party.
An internal poll (so take this with a grain of salt) shows that incumbent Santa Fe mayor David Coss has a large lead over his two opponents in the mayoral race. Coss is facing Miguel Chavez and Asenath Kepler in…
President Barack Obama declared a national emergency due to the H1N1 flu outbreak on Saturday, and an article in the Santa Fe New Mexican says health care providers in Santa Fe are “slammed,” because the flu has hit “at…
Farmington Republican Tom Mullins launched his bid for the 3rd Congressional District in the rotunda of the Roundhouse early this morning. Mullins said his platform included fiscal responsibility, bringing a common sense approach to government and a return to the…
There is in our country a deep divide between those who see an activist government as the best solution to most of society’s problems, and those who believe that believe it is not the role of government to engineer a utopian society. The majority of Santa Fesinos fall into the former category, but those of us in the latter comprise a significant and politically active minority. Our daily paper attempts to marginalize us at its own peril.
OK, Gallup boosters, prepare the billboards. I feel an all-out tourism campaign coming on.
Paul Theroux, the novelist and travel writer, thinks you ROCK!!!! I mean, he REALLY likes you. Or at least he’d like to visit again, which is…
When the news came that Santa Fe’s public schools would get some of the federal stimulus bounty being handed out by a benevolent Democratic Congress and president, few suspected that some of that federal pork would turn rancid.
