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.
In a surprisingly quick move, New Mexico Highlands University announced it is in negotiations to take over the flailing College of Santa Fe, which would cost the state an estimated $13 million per year. The state would also assume more than $30 in debt CSF has racked up. James Fries, Highlands’ president said of the deal: “I think this is an opportunity to expand Highlands’ educational role in Northern New Mexico.” More on that here.
State Rep. George Hanosh, a Democrat, died last weekend. According to our very own Heath Haussamen, “Hanosh, who was vice chairman of the House Business and Industry Committee and an automobile dealer, was named the 2008 citizen of the year by the Grants/Cibola Chamber of Commerce, according to the Cibola County Beacon. He had served in the Legislature since 1999.”
Also, the sale of dogs and cats from pet stores was banned last night by the Bernalillo County Commission. According to the Albuquerque Journal, the commission’s vote was unanimous and came after months of consideration. The ban only applies to stores to unincorporated areas outside city limits, however, and there is only one pet store in those areas, Ace of Hearts. The store will be allowed to continue selling the animals because it has a hobby breeder permit, an exception to the ban.
Another person with New Mexico connections appears to be under consideration for a job in Obama’s cabinet: there are whispers that Kevin Gover, who practiced law in Albuquerque for over a decade before becoming the director of the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of the American Indian, is being looked at for Secretary of the Interior.
In other New Mexico news, the mother of two teenage girls who “lay naked” with cult leader Wayne Bent, says (and I’m paraphrasing here) he’s a total perv; also, blood alcohol tests reveal that the lawyer who allegedly killed a man in a hit-and-run outside of WilLee’s was wasted drunk. In less depressing news: cow farts and McGruff the Crime Dog.
