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The New Mexico Independent going forward

By | 11.16.11

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…

EIB hears more anti-cap-and-trade testimony

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By | 11.10.11

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…

New Mexico’s largest university low in popularity

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By | 11.10.11

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.

TODAY’S TOP STORIES: ABQ balloon fiesta upgrades, racist rage and, oh yeah, have you heard the guv may be leaving us?

By | 11.24.08 | 9:57 am

Remember the fight between Albuquerque Mayor Martin Chavez and the city council over a reflecting pool the mayor wanted to build at Balloon Fiesta Park? Well, now it’s just a big hole in the ground and all kinds of suggestions are floating around about what to do with it, according to Dan McKay of the Albuquerque Journal.

The Los Alamos Monitor has an interesting article about the “startling” amount of racist rage being vented on Web sites in the wake of the presidential election. Anti-Defamation League National Director Abraham Foxman said in a news release that “While it’s clear that race didn’t matter to the vast majority of the American people in this election, race matters to racists.” The article goes on to describe the work of the ADL in New Mexico, particularly Regional Director Susan Seligman’s efforts to counter hate groups.

This is hardly news at this point, but it looks like Gov. Richardson is going to be the next head of the U.S. Commerce Department. This means he’d be the Obama administration’s point person on international trade. You know, things like Nafta.

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