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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

By | 05.09.08 | 10:07 am

Here’s a short roundup of what the papers around the Land of Enchantment find important today.

 

The bearded "Messiah" of a doomsday sect near Clayton proclaimed his innocence in his first court appearance Thursday, the Albuquerque Journal reports.

 

 Also in the Journal, a couple has been awarded $1.3 million by a federal jury in a discrimination suit after claiming they were run off their leased farmland at Santa Ana Pueblo because they are not Native American.

 

Four El Paso, Texas, residents were shot and wounded outside a nightclub in the tourist zone of Juarez, Mexico early Thursday morning, and it’s unclear whether they were targeted or caught up in the deadly drug violence that has plagued this border town, the Las Cruces Sun-News reports.

 

 A Nambe woman charged with killing her mother has "mental problems" and was taking anti-anxiety medicine at the time of the slaying, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican.

 

 Below-normal runoff from streams in the Sacramento Mountains is compounding worries for fire officials in Roswell, where precipitation is nearly 2 inches below normal for the year, says a story in the Roswell Daily Record.

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