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.
Sarah Palin is drawing jeers from the campaign’s big boys for refusing to stick to their script and seeming to reject the notion of an ’08 victory. She’s clearly ticked off at how the campaign handled coverage of her…
What’s black and white and red all over?
The embarrassed mainstream media, if Barack Obama loses to John McCain.
That’s the conundrum raised by the Washington Post’s Howard Kurtz, who quotes Boston University’s Tobe Berkovitz, associate dean of the…
If the RNC is going to fork out $150,000 for Sarah Palin’s wardrobe, it only seems fair that it should throw a few bucks Heather Wilson’s way. Either that, or somebody has got to tell her that…
The good folks at the Nieman Watchdog have come up with a great collection of 10 questions Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin ought to answer — if she ever answered questions.
Watchdogs of the public’s information often find themselves in an uncomfortable quandary. What’s the information’s value to the public vs. its cost to get it? In Alaska, those quandaries have now reached staggering levels — $15 million. Could it happen here?
Our quadrennial exercise in democracy has once again come down to this predictable predictor: sales of Halloween masks. John McCain or Barack Obama? Can $10 worth of latex foretell the victor?
In Las Cruces, sales of Barack Obama and…
It appears that Barack Obama and John McCain believe New Mexico’s five electoral votes hinge on what happens in the southern region of the state on Nov. 4. The move appears to parallel a move nationally by Obama as he goes on the offensive in traditionally conservative areas to put McCain on the defensive.
Is John McCain giving up on New Mexico? That’s what CNN’s John King is reporting, but there are lots of signs that McCain is still working hard to win the state’s five electoral votes, including a possible Saturday…
Jerome Block Jr. just can’t seem to get a decent headline. The Democratic candidate for the Public Regulation Commission has been fined $11,000 by Secretary of State Mary Herrera for campaign violations and must return another $10,000 in public financing,…
Brian Schmidly, son of University of New Mexico President David Schmidly, has backed out of a $94,000 job offer to be “associate director of sustainability” –a position created by his dad last June with the goal to reduce greenhouse…
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin broke little new ground during her rally in Roswell on Sunday, but that wasn’t her goal: She made a quick trip to the “Little Texas” corner of the state to rally conservative base voters. And rally the GOP base she did.
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin will make her second campaign trip to New Mexico on Sunday to hold a “Road to Victory” rally in Roswell.
The Palin rally will be at Great Southwest Aviation, 100…
The nonpartisan truth factory known as Factcheck.org is as good a place as any to get your Wednesday night debate-watching detectors in gear. (It’s also a decent tool for setting some ground rules for a debate-watching drinking game, but the New Mexico Independent isn’t outright endorsing such potentially irresponsible behavior.)
Left-wing verbal terrorists like Congressman John Lewis should be held up to ridicule. They shouldn’t be taken seriously, as the ignorant, history-deprived media talking heads take them.
Three more weeks. As with most Americans I figure, the economic news is weighing heavily on my mind when I consider the presidential race. All I really want to do is study this situation, which seems decidedly non-partisan to me. Rather, it’s a failure of capitalism which is as non-partisan as you can get. If only I could focus. But I can’t. Instead I’m thinking about race in America. As in, Race.
She’s eternally young, wears a thousand hats and is kind of … plastic. But put 49-year-old Barbie on the campaign trail, and you just might have a winner. At least that’s the thought at Albuquerque’s Off Center Art Gallery. Under the direction of volunteer and abstract acrylic artist Barbara King, the gallery has unveiled its “Election Year Barbie” exhibit, an array of collages, paintings and one deliciously melted knock-off Barbie that puts America’s favorite icon into her political place.
Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — and John McCain’s vice presidential pick – violated ethics laws and abused her power as governor in pressing to have her former brother-in-law fired as a state trooper, an independent legislative investigation concluded today, the
Political commentator David Gergen, a longtime adviser to presidents of both parties, appeared on “The Colbert Report” Thursday, delivering a righteous Daddy’s-in-charge smackdown to Sarah Palin’s “rabble-rousing” campaign appearances and declaring that John McCain “is a better man…
Demonization campaigns – typically short on facts and long on hate – seem to have made the leap from our e-mail boxes to the campaign trail, this time with Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin pushing the “send” button. Her…
For those of you are struggling with a dangerous addiction to the presidential campaign, here is a little indulgence to feed your need, a little wrap-up of some patterns I’ve noticed over the past week. Read, discuss, comment.
Late last…
