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.
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…
Some states, struggling to balance their budgets, are selling or leasing public property, including state office buildings, prisons and major toll ways, and Stateline.org has a story that examines the pros and cons of such decisions.
According to the Project for Excellence in Journalism, former Alaska Governor and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin was the third-most discussed news story of the week from November 16-22, trailing only health care and the economy. The “uproar…
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…
Help to states might be on the way. Tucked within the U.S. House’s version of health reform legislation last week is a $23.5 billion pot of money meant for states to pay for six more months of extra Medicaid…
According to the Pew Research Center, the health care debate was the number one news story of the week, at least when it comes to media coverage (though, in what may be a sad testament to the state of…
A new decision by the Barack Obama administration on the Energy Star program is getting some criticism from Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M. Both Congress and the Obama administration want to tighten standards for the energy efficient product program, but disagree…
On health care reform, the bad actors seem to get the most attention from the media. In particular, it’s the screamers who don’t want to debate, but instead disrupt, that make the headlines. And that’s not always right.
There is widespread misconception about what the health care proposals being developed in Congress will do — and how much they’ll cost, according to the “Seven Falsehoods About Healthcare,” a new report by FactCheck.org, a project of the…
I know I’m weighing in about a year late on this, but I spent last week tromping around Sarah Palin’s turf and I just have to share what I saw and heard about the tough-talking governor from her friendly constituents in Alaska.
One of the pages on the New Mexico Republican Party’s Web site is devoted to the words of “great Republicans.” There are the usual suspects there (Abraham Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt, Ronald Reagan) along with some more questionable choices — both…
A new documentary on Gov. Sarah Palin looks to rally a GOP ready for a conservative’s-conservative to stick it to the mainstream media in 2012.
Most of the nation’s governors are in Washington this weekend to meet with President Barack Obama and discuss how they’re spending their chunks of the stimulus package. Notably absent from the events: New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson.
A poll by Rasmussen Reports finds that most respondents want their elected officials to be more like Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin than Arizona Sen. John McCain.
The poll also shows a striking, though not unexpected, difference between how Republicans…
Apparently two months of crisscrossing of the country at an exhausting pace wasn’t enough for Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.
News comes that the former GOP vice presidential candidate is heading to the Peach State — Georgia — next week…
Of all the depressing statistics bedeviling our nation right now, here’s one that’s easy to fix: When the polls close Tuesday night, one in three women will have failed to cast a ballot. Jane Addams and Susan B. Anthony, two of the suffragists who truly suffered through the long fight to win women’s right to vote, will be shaking their heads in shame.
So you’ve had enough jabber about Sarah Palin’s lipstick? Political jokes about putting lipstick on a whatever? Lipstick talk, period?
Well, Palin may have lasted until the campaign’s final moments, but in the world of retail, Hillary Clinton’s lipstick lasted…
Rudy Giuliani asked an enthusiastic crowd of about 200 people at a rally in Mesilla today to prove the polls wrong and elect John McCain on Tuesday. In a speech full of shots at Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Bill Richardson and the media, the former GOP presidential candidate and New York mayor said the polls have been wrong before.
You open your door on Halloween, expecting to see a young princess or a mini Frankenstein’s monster asking for candy. You do see a princess or Frankenstein’s monster, but instead of an elementary school-aged child, you see a college-aged student. Instead of asking for candy, you are told how to find your nearest polling location.
Republican calls for Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens to resign after his conviction on corruption charges this week could get the Democratic Party one crucial step closer to the cherished 60-vote margin in the U.S. Senate, and put Republicans John…
