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.
For the first time in New Mexico, and perhaps the nation, a person is being prosecuted for causing the death of an unborn child. The defendant killed a pregnant 29-year-old woman and has been charged with killing her unborn child, the Albuquerque Journal reports.
Also in the Journal, the mother of a slain 14-year-old girl says that teasing may have led to her daughter’s death at the hands of a 19-year-old man.
And in Las Cruces, the Sun News informs its readers about gangs. Police have flagged as many gang-related drive-by shootings in the last four months — 15 — as they reported in all of 2007, evidence that gang-related crime is up in Las Cruces.
