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.
Signs of the nation’s recession are hard to miss these days, the Albuquerque Journal tells us today in three separate stories: The state’s labor department is scrambling as the number of New Mexicans filing for unemployment has skyrocketed in recent weeks; Albuquerque’s city attorney office is using contract lawyers more often to help it keep up as it struggles with staff vacancies; and apparently even some wealthy New Mexico residents are feeling the economic pinch. But the pain is relative. Film stars Marsha Mason and Val Kilmer have reduced their asking prices for homes they are selling in northern New Mexico.
On another topic, the state is looking into ways to avert people from jumping to their deaths from the Rio Grande Gorge bridge, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports.
And down south, a new sales tax to help pay for the state’s spaceport went into effect Thursday in Doña Ana and Sierra counties, according to the Las Cruces Sun-News.
