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.
About 1,890 employees and visitors to Los Alamos National Laboratory could have been exposed to beryllium contamination at a storage facility in Los Alamos Canyon, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports.
Meanwhile, superintendent Winston Brooks has ordered 5 percent to 10 percent cuts in administrative costs throughout the Albuquerque Public Schools system, according to the Albuquerque Journal. How the cuts are to be made is unclear. But departments with budgets of $1.5 million or more are asked to cut 10 percent, while those with less than $1.5 million are taking a 5 percent hit, the paper reports.
Elsewhere in New Mexico, the battle between SkyWi Inc. and Qwest Communications continues. The New Mexico Business Weekly reports that SkyWi, New Mexico’s largest independently owned and operated Internet service provider, is accusing Qwest of disconnecting SkyWi’s telecommunication services to Artesia, Santa Fe and Las Cruces on Wednesday. The action is apparently in violation of a Dec. 31 order by the New Mexico Public Regulation Commission to not cut services, the weekly reports.
In Silver City, there’s good news if you’re a western buff. The New Mexico town was ranked No. 3 in the Top Ten True Western Towns by True West magazine, reports the Silver City Sun News.
And as terrible as the economic downturn is, there’s apparently one upside. Driving while impaired (DWI) arrests in Bernalillo County dropped 5.4 percent last year compared with 2007, and alcohol-related fatal crashes dipped to a 10-year low, according to data compiled by the Journal.
