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.
The Albuquerque Journal’s Around the Tubes (why didn’t we think of that name?) includes excerpts from a final interview with former Sen. Pete Domenici.
SFReeper decides to play chicken with Viacom on YouTube and highlights a clip of David Letterman making fun of our governor from back on Jan. 9. “He’s deemed too dirty to be Secretary of Commerce but is just fine for Governor of New Mexico,” Letterman declares.
While the Minnesota Star-Tribune’s filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy is perhaps bigger news to our sister-site the Minnesota Independent, in southern New Mexico the Sunland Park-Santa Teresa Journal has folded after just a few months publishing, according to Jose Z. Garcia.
Daily Kos notes that Oregon Democrat Jeff Merkley was against the bailout in the U.S. House because it had no accountability provisions, but voted for it in the U.S. Senate. Does that sound familiar?
Oh, and Kate Nash of the Santa Fe New Mexican has a new blog. I believe this is at least the third year in a row that the New Mexican has changed blogging platforms just before the legislative session. This time it switched from Livejournal (which always seemed to me a weird choice) to blogspot. Steve Terrell has his blog, Roundhouse Report, on blogspot as well.
Swing State Project has the results of the presidential election for most of the congressional districts in the United States, including all three in New Mexico. Perhaps most surprising? Barack Obama lost the conservative 2nd Congressional District only by 50 percent to 49 percent. John Kerry lost the same district 58 percent to 41 percent in 2004, and Al Gore lost it 54 percent to 43 percent in 2000.
NewMexiKen wonders if those in the Hudson River plane crash will be compensated.
And now for your palate cleanser, two words: Pink iguanas.
