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.
Albuquerque City Councilor Rey Garduño, who represents District 6, is introducing a resolution at tonight’s City Council meeting to recognize the city’s Southeast Heights in and around Louisiana Boulevard between Central Avenue and Zuni Road avenues as the…
Motion on a number of ethics reform proposals has finally begun in the Senate, and that has reform supporters saying there is reason for optimism despite the committee’s late start on the issue.
Residents of Albuquerque’s Southeast Heights want the rest of us, and particularly the media, to stop calling their neighborhood “the War Zone.” Revitalization efforts have long made that moniker a misnomer. Albuquerque City Councilor Rey Garduño and state Sen.…
I got a chance to sit down with two of the state’s newbie state senators — Tim Keller and Eric Griego, both Albuquerque Democrats — for yesterday’s episode of KNME’s New Mexico In Focus.
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…
