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.
Americans are just now coming to grips with the idea of bailing out Wall Street to the tune of nearly $1 trillion. The experts say it’s necessary to protect the country and perhaps the world from an economic apocalypse. But an alternative view of the financial meltdown and another potential use for taxpayers’ billions popped up Sunday in the blog Climate Progress.
“Is the financial crisis more dire than the climate crisis?” it asks. “Not even close.”
Joe Romm points out that the United Nations panel on climate change gives us just four or five years to rein in global warming or risk a meltdown of a far greater kind. He goes on to say, “It is insane to glom together a trillion-dollar taxpayer-funded legislative response to this crisis in a few days while utterly ignoring the infinitely graver climate crisis.”
It’s a compelling argument, or perhaps an argument for Congress to take a deep breath and consider whether all of us exiles on Main Street should get a break, too, financial or otherwise.
