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.
State lawmakers should have judged Neri Holguin on her professional qualifications, not her past political work, Gov. Bill Richardson said Tuesday, after the Senate rejected his nominee to the state Environmental Improvement Board by a vote of 17…
A political battle over control of New Mexico’s dominant party played out on the Senate floor Tuesday over an unexpected issue: an Albuquerque woman’s nomination to a state board. Confirmations in the Senate are usually uneventful and state lawmakers usually speak…
A federal court on Monday ruled that the state of New Mexico had violated two nonprofits’ rights to free speech last year by attempting to force them to disclose the origin of the money that had paid for mailers that were critical of state lawmakers.
State Sen. Tim Keller, who represents a portion of Albuquerque’s southeast heights in the New Mexico Senate, announced today that $500,000 in capital outlay money previously allocated for a rugby concession stand would be reallocated to other district priorities.
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This just in from KUNM FM 89.9: “This week on the KUNM call-in show Arcie Chapa continues our look at the 2009 Legislative Session with coverage of a bill that seeks to define what nonprofits can and can’t do…
The so-called ‘sour grapes’ lawsuit by three Democrats defeated in the primary officially is done, with the deadline for appeal having passed.
Former state Sens. James Taylor and Shannon Robinson and state Rep. Dan Silva all lost in the Democratic…
A lawsuit filed this summer by three state lawmakers alleging a conspiracy between the challengers who knocked them out in a June primary and several nonprofit organizations has been thrown out of court.
A lawsuit alleging an illegal conspiracy to defeat three incumbent lawmakers in the June primary is baseless, several people and groups named as defendants say, but one of the lawmakers says insiders who decided to “snitch” will help prove the…
