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.
Three Farmington men who used a hot wire hanger to brand a swastika into the arm of a disabled Navajo man have been indicted on federal hate crimes charges. The indictment provides details about the assault that were not…
One of the three men who branded a swastika on the arm of a mentally challenged Navajo man in Farmington, New Mexico has been notified by federal authorities that it’s likely he’ll be charged with a hate crime,…
In the wake of a brutal incident in which a young mentally challenged Navajo man was branded with a swastika symbol, officials in Farmington have been asked to sign an agreement, prepared by the Navajo Nation Human Rights Commission, that would serve as a guide for improving race relations. But the mayor of Farmington deleted two paragraphs of the document before forwarding it to his city’s community relations committee last week, saying the discussion of a history of oppression was “negative.”
A Las Cruces man who stepped into controversy last week by flying a flag with a drawn-on swastika above an upside down American flag took the flags down. But now, they are back up, this time with…
One Las Cruces resident has stirred up controversy by flying a swastika flag above an upside-down U.S. flag. KFOX-TV reports. Ken Triplett says the display at his home, “…just says the American people need to wake up and understand that…
