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.
It’s Friday the 13th. In case you were wondering, the fear of Friday the 13th is Paraskevidekatriaphobia. I can’t find an official name for “fear of bad horror movies.”
John Fleck was a day ahead of Friday the 13th to scare us with expanding dry conditions in New Mexico. There is good snowpack in the mountains, but the latest drought map “shows expanding abnormally dry conditions across southern New Mexico.”
SFReeper has a novel way to save print newspapers. After a Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper vendor was caught selling heroin, Santa Fe Reporter editor Julia Goldberg said in an e-mail, “WTF!!! That should be OUR turf!” Now you know why NMI is online-only. And you know what they say, great minds think alike.
Former Albuquerque mayor Jim Baca doesn’t like the Republican members of the U.S. House much after their vote against the economic stimulus bill. In a blog post, Baca writes, “The republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives just said f**k you to America.” Yes, he deliberately did not capitalize “Republicans.”
Is it just me or have there been a lot of plane crashes lately? A blogger tells us about what might have happened in the Buffalo plane crash: ice. Via NewMexiKen.
Finally, for all you geeks, here are some nerd Valentines for you, just in time for the big day. Via my favorite science blog, Bad Astronomy.
NMI’s Danielle Bauer contributed to this report.
