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.
Over at Clearly New Mexico, Eli Yong Lee writes about how the Senate leadership thwarted webcasting efforts before: “In late December, it was learned that the Legislative Council Service (LCS) on orders of the Senate leadership did not issue the final contract for the webcasting. Then it took another chilling step. Just hours before the the opening of the 2009 Session (Jan. 20), the newly installed cameras and equipment were dismantled and removed from the Senate chamber. The state budget crisis was trotted out as the excuse for these actions.”
State Sen. Dede Feldman, D-Albuquerque, writes on her blog about a bill she’s sponsoring that would create a system of maintained trails along irrigation ditches in Albuquerque. “While this bill may seem like a drastic measure to some (including the Conservancy District, which said in a recent news article that I was throwing a ‘temper tantrum’) I feel that it is in keeping with a rising recreational tide in Bernalillo County,” Feldman explains.
Oh, and bad news: Punxatawny Phil saw his shadow today, meaning we’ll have six more weeks of winter. (But hey, if winter’s gonna be this warm, then who cares, right?)
And Julia Goldberg, editor of the Santa Fe Reporter, has a funny post entitled “Everything I Learned About I Life I Learned From Watching Zombie Movies With My Boyfriend.” I like the last three best:
8. Everyone looks good in black.
9. A sense of humor does not guarantee a long life.
10. The end of the world is no excuse not to have good hair.
