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.
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 a “farewell kiss, you dog,” and with the second that it was from “the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq.”
With all the attention paid to the spaceport in southern New Mexico, many may not realize that Albuquerque holds the Space Vehicles Directorate of the U.S. Air Force, housed at Kirtland AFB. According to Charles D. Brunt at the Albuquerque Journal, the “Battlespace Environment Division” is relocating from Hanscom AFB in Massachusetts to round out the work of the directorate. Its mission includes developing advanced surveillance technologies and studying conditions in space that can affect military operations, which it will do in a new Battlespace Environment Laboratory.
Speaking of battles, Daniel Borunds reports for the Las Cruces Sun-News that an e-mail, in Spanish, is making the rounds with a simple holiday wish for three days of peace in Juarez:
In a bloody year in which Juárez was submerged in a war between drug cartels and a crime wave with more than 1,500 homicides, an anonymous e-mail floating in the borderland is asking for “a truce for Christmas in Juárez.”
The e-mail asks for a truce on Dec. 24-26. It is addressed to “narcos, capos, agents, hit men, the press, those affected by violence, friends and others.”
