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.
Train robbers are hitting the tracks again in New Mexico, but they’re not riding horses, using six-shooters and pillaging gold.
“Rail officials say the train robbers are swiping high end electronics from rail cars, including flat screen TVs,” KOB.com reports. “It’s still not clear where trains are being ripped off or exactly how the bandits are doing it, but thieves reportedly are following the trains with SUVs and are using GPS equipment to communicate with each other.”
After years of not being able to find a market for the glass the city has collected at recycling bins, Mayor Martin Chavez announced Tuesday that a local company has agreed to pay the city $20 a ton for its glass, the Albuquerque Journal reports. The company, Growstone, will turn the glass into a pumicelike soil amendment that retains water. Time to start feeling guilty about not recycling your glass again!
SFReeper has a story about House Joint Memorial 18, which would bring New Mexico’s National Guard Troops home from Iraq. It’s a little controversial, but has so far not drawn much attention.
Weekly Alibi writes that the plan for a modern streetcar, sometimes called “trolley,” to run up and down Central Avenue may be actualized, as Mayor Marty foresees funding in the new stimulus plan.
“Los Alamos managers and scientists have expressed frustration in past years about the lab’s relative lack of success in commercializing homegrown technologies,” the Los Alamos Monitor says in a story about LANL’s new project, LabStart. “That old rap is supposed to go away with the new strategy that will plant a full-time resident venture capitalist scout within the laboratory to identify promising technologies that can be developed into new businesses.” Read more about it here.
Also, we hear U.S. Attorney Greg Fouratt’s views on medical marijuana and its legal possibilities on the state and federal levels, as reported by the Associated Press.
Speaking of marijuana, here’s something to think about: When Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps recently got photographed taking a bong hit, he was suspended from swimming and dropped by a lucrative sponsor. But what happened after baseball star Alex Rodriguez admitted taking performance-enhancing steroids for years? Nothing so far. Why is that? asks a Reuters story in the New York Times.
