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.
On the week of the one-year anniversary of Arizona’s controversial anti-immigration bill — which has provoked copycats throughout the country — Republican Gov. Jan Brewer signed controversial legislation concerning the political clout of religious institutions, among other issues.
An Albuquerque activist for religious freedom in the military says he received threatening phone calls in advance of a lecture he was scheduled to give at the University of New Mexico Wednesday. The host of the talk, before an Introduction to Peace Studies class, says he was concerned enough to arrange for security guards to be present.
Whether New Mexico’s Catholic Church is on the side of Democrats or Republicans when it comes to issues like abortion, homosexuality and capital punishment, is beside the point. The issue isn’t ideology; it’s law: Is the church or is it not violating the constitutional separation of church and state?
While it appears no New Mexico clergy members took up a conservative group’s encouragement to endorse a political candidate on Sunday, nearly three dozen pastors across the country did endorse someone and flouted a federal tax law, the Washington Post…
