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.
In a gut-wrenching cover story titled “Everyone Knew,” Santa Fe Reporter staff writer Corey Pein details the years of missed warning signs that foretold, and perhaps could have prevented the night in late May when police say Marino Leyba,…
The brutal murder of a pregnant Santa Fe teenager has reopened a debate over how to properly punish such crimes. It has also prompted supporters of a “fetal homicide” bill to say they plan to introduce it again in the next session of the New Mexico Legislature.
Whether Mariano Leyba Jr. is convicted of two murders or three might not affect his sentence, but the idea that a baby who is fully developed and clearly viable is, legally, a non-entity is disturbing.
