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.
New Mexico has added 100 government jobs since 2007, making it one of 22 states to have added rather than lost government jobs since the start of the economic crisis in 2007.
The governors of the four U.S. southern border states will join their counterparts from the northern states of Mexico in a conference to be held in Ensenada, Baja California. Gov. Susana Martinez will serve as vice-chair of the conference,…
Texas Gov. Rick Perry blasted out a statement opposing the new reporting rules for multiple semiautomatic gun purchases in states bordering Mexico. “Singling out border states and targeting legal gun sales and sellers will have little or no impact on the Mexican cartels transporting drugs, guns and cash to and from major cities throughout the U.S.,” he said.
Recently proposed federal and state family-planning spending cuts would disproportionately hinder low-income Latinas’ access to reproductive care, said several women’s reproductive care
The U.S. Justice Department has announced it will send agents to monitor some polling places in Texas after tea party and Republican Party-certified poll challengers allegedly harassed dozens of early voters and poll officials.
Tea party activists are fanning out across…
A bill that would collect taxes on online sales in New Mexico died quickly in this year’s 30-day session, but now Texas is attempting to collect $269 million in unpaid taxes from the online sales giant Amazon. Amazon disputes the…
This year’s annual gathering of Mexican and U.S. border state governors seemed star crossed from the start.
Scheduled for Phoenix this year, Arizona cancelled hosting the event after its toughest-in-the-nation anti-immigration law stirred protests and controversy. So New Mexico stepped…
It’s unclear whether Robert Reza, the shooter in last week’s rampage that left two dead in Albuquerque, was one of the more than 17,000 individuals in New Mexico permitted to carry a concealed weapon. And you likely won’t ever know. Information about who can legally carry a concealed weapon in the state, including names, is confidential under state law (29-19-6, Subsection B). While New Mexico’s decision to make information on concealed-carry applications confidential appears in line with many surrounding states, it is by no means universal, a survey by The Independent has found.
The Texas Republican convention was meant to bring the state’s GOP together to focus on the November elections. On Friday, two former political opponents, Gov. Rick Perry and Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, reconciled after a heated gubernatorial primary. And Perry’s…
Google contributed $41 million in economic activity in New Mexico last year, according to a 62-page report the tech giant released this week.
That number includes more than $500,000 donated to 10 nonprofits and what it says was $40…
New Mexico’s Eastern Plains could see a second Dust Bowl caused by climate change, USA Today reported Friday. Oklahoma state climatologist Gary McManus is warning that changing precipitation patterns caused by climate change could be “catastrophic” for northeastern New…
New Mexico isn’t a lone actor in its bid to tax cigarettes at a greater rate. As you may recall, the Legislature passed a 75-cent hike to the state’s 91-cent cigarette tax last week to help address next year’s…
Foreign aid trickled into Haiti’s devastated capital on Thursday morning as survivors of Tuesday’s earthquake, many of them injured and homeless, woke to another morning with no electricity and dwindling water, to search for the missing and claim their…
Population growth nearly ground to a halt this year in many longtime boom states, a sign the recession has taken a toll on the migration habits of Americans, USA Today reports. But not all high-growth states saw a slowing in…
Here’s a summary of what I’m reading this morning. Every state is swimming under a tide of new applications for food stamps, the federal program that helps the low-income with food purchases. New Mexico isn’t an exception. But one state over, Texas is at risk of losing federal food stamp money due to a high error rate and failure to process applications in a timely manner and. A federal official has suggested the nation’s second most populous state should hire a food stamp czar to correct the significant problems, reports the Austin American-Statesman. More …
Will New Mexicans soon need a passport to go to Austin? Would the Dallas Cowboys no longer be “America’s Team?”
