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.
At least one media outlet and the New Mexico chapter of the American Civil Liberties Union said in recent days that they are having a hard time getting documents from the Secretary of State’s office about alleged illegal votes in New Mexico.
Former Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Committee Secretary-designate Harrison Schmitt alerted aides to the governor of his refusal to undergo a background check four days before Gov. Susana Martinez told reporters she had just heard of the refusal.
Freelance journalist and occasional contributor to the The Independent, Peter St. Cyr says that Gov. Bill Richardson’s office has been ducking inspection requests related to pardon applications in New Mexico. This comes as Richardson is considering a much-publicized posthumous pardon of Billy the Kid.
Greg Solano appears to have sold more than 1,000 items stolen from the Santa Fe County Sheriff’s office on eBay, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican. The former sheriff’s financial problems, which he says drove him to sell the stolen goods, are nothing new, though: The Santa Fe Reporter documents two decades of financial trouble.
In a sharp rebuke of Democratic Secretary of State Mary Herrera (whose office will announce next Tuesday’s election results), five of New Mexico’s major newspapers endorsed state Sen. Diana Duran, Herrera’s Republican challenger.
An internal U.S. Department of Energy investigation found that Los Alamos National Laboratory and its federal managers have repeatedly skirted nuclear safety rules at plutonium labs, the Albuquerque Journal reports.
Mexican consul Gustavo de Unanue has accused city…
A delay in reporting Rio Arriba County election results Tuesday night was due to a connection failure between the County’s automated election system and the Secretary of State’s office, according to County Clerk Moises Morales.
Deputy County Clerk…
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…
Gov. Bill Richardson’s office formally responded to my request for information about the 59 political appointees who are losing their jobs today and – surprise, surprise – the response included no information about those people who are losing their…
Educators and others, including health care advocates, are planning to march on the Capitol in Santa Fe to protest proposed cuts to public education and to Medicaid, the government’s low-income health insurance program. And some would like Michael Moore to join, reports the New Mexican’s political reporter Steve Terrell, who included the organization’s open letter to Moore on his blog, Roundhouse Reports. More …
The state’s unemployment rate rose to 7.5 percent in August, meaning New Mexicans were unemployed that month than in any other month this year, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports today. The figures were released Thursday from the state’s Department…
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.
Kate Nash of the Santa Fe New Mexican gives us a story today about another group — this time the American Federation of Teachers New Mexico — calling for a repeal of the 2003 income tax cuts…
If the online newspaper eventually does replace the printed page — and I cannot help but believe that it eventually will — there will still be investigative journalists because there will still be readers who want to know the facts.
We’ll be spilling some beer in honor of our homies at the New Mex tonight. The newspaper published its own bad news Saturday, with a news brief reporting that it has cut the equivalent of 12 positions.
The state has filled 371 classified positions and 41 exempt posts since the start of a hiring freeze, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports.
Kate Nash of the New Mexican writes that officials said that every hire required the…
The Santa Fe New Mexican reports in today’s edition that the board overseeing the state’s Retiree Health Care Authority has made some changes to health benefit plans offered to several thousand of its members.
If you think Twitter is just a way for American techno geeks to navel gaze, how mistaken you are.
Watching protesters in Tehran use Twitter and other social networking services to tap out messages and share photos of…
One of the current Democratic Party talking points is that a good way for liberals (aka progressives) to disarm conservatives (aka whining, infantile, redneck, racist mental defectives) is to mock them for warning Americans about the dangers of the slippery slope to socialism.
“Bob Johnson, thou art avenged!” was what The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Steve Terrell wrote on his blog last week after the Legislature, following years and years of debate, approved a bill that would open conference committees and most other legislative meetings to the public. Not so fast, Gov. Bill Richardson effectively said.
