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 native and three-tour Iraq veteran Joseph Callan, an organizer of Iraq Veterans Against the War, wants the military to stop deploying brain damaged and traumatized troops to combat zones. The illegal practice has led to repeated brain injuries and harder-to-treat cases of Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, one Army doctor and epidemiologist told The Independent — before he was ordered to stop speaking to the press.
Some security experts say the Obama administration is mischaracterizing the terrorist threat to get the public to back escalating the Afghanistan war.
President Bush made a surprise visit to Iraq on Sunday and ended up dodging shoes rather than bullets. At a news conference with Iraqi media, a journalist threw two shoes at Bush, yelling with the first that it was…
