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.
Those of you who live in northern and central New Mexico know better than I do today that there’s snow on the ground around you. Still, for those of us from the south, who rarely get to see snow, click here for some pics from Democracy for New Mexico and here for another from Duke City Fix.
Onward. New Mexico State University government professor Jose Z. Garcia has a new posting on his blog about the “Schizophrenia of the Two Hats” problem plaguing Cynthia Nava, who is a state senator and chairwoman of the Education Committee, as well as superintendent of the Gadsden Independent School District in southern Doña Ana County.
Nava and the district have faced quite a bit of controversy lately, and yet, in the face of it all, the state school board association named the school district’s board its school board of the year. As Garcia points out, “the gratitude (the association) might have been thinking about was almost certainly not gratitude they might receive from Superintendent Nava, but from Senator Nava.”
