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.
The chances of a Wall Street Reform bill breaking a Republican filibuster are getting smaller by the day. Sen. Scott Brown, R-Mass., one of the four Republicans to vote for the Senate version of the bill earlier this year, has…
The Wall Street reform bill being debated in the Senate may not be able to survive a filibuster. Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wisc., announced today that he will vote to block the legislation from getting an up-and-down vote. The announcement…
This week, Senate Democrats will attempt to push through a jobs bill that has stalled in the chamber for seven weeks. If Congress does not pass the bill, hundreds of thousands will lose their federally extended unemployment insurance. Doctors will take a 21 percent cut in Medicare reimbursement rates, and states will see less money for Medicaid.
Though the Republican primary is just over a month away, former Republican Party chairman Allen Weh aired a TV ad attacking Lt. Gov. Diane Denish, a Democrat, for her use of the state’s jet.
According to Think Progress, a blog that is a project of the liberal Center for American Progress, Sens. Scott Brown, R-Mass., and Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., will be added to the Senate Armed Services Committee. Brown will…
Former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson, a libertarian-leaning Republican, told a New Hampshire paper that the victory by a Republican in the Massachusetts special election is not a mandate for Republicans. “I just see (voters having) a real disgust…
On Tuesday, Scott Brown pulled off one of the biggest upsets in modern political history when he became the first Republican to hold a Senate seat in Massachusetts in nearly 30 years. Brown defeated Martha Coakley, the Massachusetts Attorney…
