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.
Even with gas prices plummeting from a July high of $4 per gallon to the current price of $1.84 per gallon — the lowest gas prices have been since 2004 — bus ridership in the Duke City is still up from this time last year.
Gas prices were at $3.00 per gallon in the Albuquerque metro area this time last year.
“We’re kind of seeing in November what we had happen in October. It’s not going over a million, but it’s not dropping off the way gas prices are dropping off,” city Transit Director Greg Payne said.
ABQ Ride reported 908,988 passenger boardings in October, an 8 percent increase compared with October 2007, when gasoline was more expensive.
Colder weather means less people take the bus. But still, people who have gotten used to riding the bus have braved the cold weather to ride the bus, Payne told the Albuquerque Journal.
