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.
It wasn’t just New Mexico’s governor that was a target for the white powder that was sent to his office. As scary as it was, this incident was not confined to New Mexico. White powder (found to be harmless) was sent to “more than 40 U.S. governors offices and at 15 U.S. embassies in Europe” according to Agence France Presse (AFP):
More from AFP:
State Department deputy spokesman Robert Wood said the envelopes were mailed to embassies in Berlin, Berne, Brussels, Bucharest, Copenhagen, Dublin, Luxembourg, Madrid , Oslo, Paris, Riga, Rome, Stockholm, Tallinn, and The Hague.
In the New Mexico case, twelve people were quarantined when the white powder was discovered.
The first thought, of course, is anthrax after the 2001 anthrax attacks that killed five people. Those attacks happened in a similar fashion but were sent to the offices of several news media outlets as well as two Democratic U.S. senators.
