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 outlined her opposition to the film incentive program during her State of the State address in Santa Fe Tuesday. But according to reporting by KOB-TV, an anecdote that Martinez used exploited a loophole that has already been closed.
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.
Republican gubernatorial candidate Susana Martinez was the first gubernatorial candidate in the history of the alternative weekly Santa Fe Reporter to skip out on an endorsement interview, the paper reported today. Martinez followed in the footsteps of Republican Senate…
A Sikh business empire based in New Mexico is undergoing turmoil and lawsuits after the death of the Sikh religious sect’s leader in 2004.
The litigious battle is for “control of a large private army that has won more…
This week the Santa Fe Reporter, the city’s liberal-leaning alternative weekly paper, published its endorsements, including Janice Arnold-Jones in the Republican primary for governor, Adam Kokesh over Tom Mullins in the congressional race and Jerry Ortiz y Pino in the…
New Mexico militia leader Bob Wright was among a group of New Mexicans attending a gun rights rally in Northern Virginia on Monday. Earlier this year, a tea party group in Alamogordo held an open-carry tea party in the southern…
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…
You can listen to Congressman Ben Ray Luján, D-New Mexico, talk health care reform in an interview with the Santa Fe Reporter. You can get the embedded version over at SFReeper, or just download the mp3 .
A story in this week’s Santa Fe Reporter claims that a local group of white supremacists is planning to recruit this summer because the national climate is ripe. “It’s becoming…
The nation’s top cop said Friday that marijuana dispensaries participating in New Mexico’s fledgling medical marijuana program shouldn’t fear Drug Enforcement Agency raids, a staple of the Bush administration. U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, speaking in Albuquerque, said his department is focused “on large traffickers,” not on growers who have a state’s imprimatur to dispense marijuana for medical reasons.
Swing State of Mind, the Santa Fe Reporter’s election blog, will receive an AltWeekly Award from the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies for “Dave Maass and staff.” This brings the amount of awards by the Santa Fe Reporter to six.
NMI’s Gwyneth Doland will soon be presented with a highly coveted AltWeekly Award, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies announced yesterday.
Specifically, Doland — a veteran alternative weekly journalist — will win an award for Devour: A Locavore’s Guide to Santa…
Gov. Bill Richardson has been labeled by the Santa Fe Reporter’s Dave Maass as “hands down the contemporary King of Pocket Vetoes.”
While there were no pocket vetoes of bills in New Mexico between 1976 and 1995…
Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White, who is term-limited out of his current position, is working to repeal the state’s death penalty repeal — even before the death penalty repeal goes into effect.
Since Jan. 1, 2007, there have been approximately 20 occasions when Attorney General Gary King’s office determined an agency had violated the state’s public records or open meetings laws.
Northern Trust, the custodian bank for billions of dollars in assets controlled by the state treasurer’s office, the State Investment Council and two public employee retirement boards, was also a large donor to Gov. Bill Richardson’s electoral campaigns, according…
It’s getting ugly out there, people. “Obama has embraced Richardson’s approach to governing, and so even without Richardson, the president-elect is welcoming corruption and corporate influence into his administration,” says an opinion piece posted today on dcexaminer.com. The piece…
I took a ride on the Rail Runner Express the other day and came away impressed. It was the day before Christmas Eve, and friends told me there was a whiteout in Santa Fe. Normally, I would count myself lucky to live in nice, dry Albuquerque with no compelling reason to go to anywhere on a day like that.
