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.
A small cadre of moderate senators— Democrats and Republicans — gathered last week to cut tens of billions of dollars of spending from the original Senate stimulus bill. The $350 billion in tax cuts were, however, kept intact. A big loser in this was education, where tens of billions was cut.
But the money that could aid Los Alamos and Sandia National labs is still in the bill, according to John Fleck at the Albuquerque Journal.The bill includes a billion dollars for nuclear cleanup “no strings attached,” as Fleck puts it.
An additional $5.5 billion was earmarked for “Defense Environmental Cleanup.”
“Again, no strings attached,” Fleck writes. Both categories have to be spent by Sept. 30, 2010. With a lot of nuclear work going on at Sandia and Los Alamos National labs, a lot of this money could find its way to New Mexico.
However, in the “Defense Environmental Cleanup” category, the House budgeted just $1 billion. So look for it to be somewhere between the House and the Senate numbers.
