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.
Officials of Albuquerque Public Schools have removed peanut butter from the menu after news of a recall and a salmonella scare, The Albuquerque Journal reports.
Meanwhile The New Mexico Business Weekly says that Intel may cut as many as 6,000 jobs. It’s unclear how that will affect the company’s Rio Rancho plant.
A new project at Tucumcari’s Mesalands Community College holds the promise of moving New Mexico into position to take advantage of what some are calling the emerging ‘green economy.’ That step forward was one of many things discussed at a two-day conference in Santa Fe focused on how to attract ‘green’ jobs to the state, according to the Associated Press.
The AP also reports that the Legislature’s 60-day session will cost taxpayers about $138,000 a day.
