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.
U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-New Mexico, spoke on the Senate floor yesterday in support of the nomination to the Supreme Court of Judge Sonia Sotomayor.
We asked our readers, via Twitter, Facebook and e-mail, what they would ask Sonia Sotomayor if they had the opportunity. Their questions focused on race and ethnicity—probably because of her own ethnicity and because one of her high-profile cases dealt with racial discrimination — but also highlighted some things we’re pretty sure the Senators won’t ask about.
The fact that Judge Sonia Sotomayor believes that policy is made in the courts troubles strict constructionists. All too many on the left dismiss this legitimate concern as nothing more than thinly disguised racism. Any opposition to Sotomayor is racist by definition. Case closed.
Like many in the media, I received an e-mail on Thursday from James Flores, spokesman for the New Mexico Secretary of State’s Office, that had nothing to do with the work of the government office that employs Flores.
The e-mail,…
U.S. Sen. Tom Udall, D-N.M., said he was impressed after meeting today with Judge Sonia Sotomayor, President Barack Obama’s nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, New Mexico is 44.4 percent Latino — a higher percentage than any other state. That’s clearly one reason the first Latino to be nominated to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court is big…
So there’s at least one more connection to be found between Sonia Sotomayor and New Mexico, albeit a bit indirect.
That is, U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor’s family roots in Puerto Rico — and the island’s 19th century acquisition by the…
As the spotlight focuses on the trailblazing Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Latina lawyers around New Mexico offer diverse reactions to the first-ever Latino nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court — as well as differing opinions about how biography matters.
This week, President Obama’s U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor has been called a “racist” by both conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh and former Speaker of the U.S. House Newt Gingrich.
But in a story on Slate,…
Gov. Bill Richardson thinks that Barack Obama’s first nominee for Supreme Court — Judge Sonia Sotomayor — is an “excellent choice.”
President Barack Obama announced this morning that federal appeals court Judge Sonia Sotomayor is his selection to replace Justice David Souter on the United States Supreme Court.
Two of the hot topics we’ve been thinking about and reading about today are Judge Sonia Sotomayor’s possible nomination to the U.S. Supreme Court and the use of anonymous sources by bloggers.
These two seemingly divergent trains of…
