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.
There are 15 to 20 people who’ve told Diane Denish they’re interested in the lieutenant governor job if/when Richardson is confirmed as Secretary of Commerce and Denish moves into the governor’s office, Kate Nash writes on her Green Chile Chatter blog. Nash lists some of the names we’ve all been tossing around then points at a really good question: Why are none of the contenders women?
Mario Burgos is mad about that bailout money. “Billions gone just like that. What do we have to show for it?” he asks. And it’s a damn good question.
Cheryl Rofer at WhirledView has an interesting series of posts on nuclear weapons and nuclear power plants. Rofer writes: “The bottom line is that the American proposal was surprising to the Russians (and to me as well), and that the talks are dead until we have a new president. To greet that new president, Russia has offered some carrots and some sticks.” Click here if it’s been a while since you thought about START I.
And over at Cocoposts, the topic of the day is SunCal and its plan to desalinate water found deep in its Albuquerque-area land. “What makes the idea of deep water drilling and treatment good, is just that – theidea of it. Just the potential to continue on, repeating patterns of desert golf courses and auto dependent sprawl, enables the brokering in development to continue,” Coco writes.
Also, did you know it’s the fourth day of Kwanzaa today? Barelas Babe is blogging about it over at Duke City Fix.
