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.
SANTA FE—As New Mexicans grapple with rising fuel costs, lawmakers are fighting over how to bring them down. Some, including New Mexico Sen. Pete Domenici, say more domestic oil production in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge and elsewhere is the answer. And while ANWR is ground zero for that debate, New Mexico—the nation’s sixth largest oil producing state—has its own drilling controversies, including a bitter battle in Santa Fe County’s Galisteo Basin. The oil industry says today’s soaring oil prices—at well over $100 a barrel—fuel their argument for tapping the basin and other areas of northern New Mexico. But as we report in this New Mexcio Independent video, drilling opponents aren’t backing down.
