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.
The top story of the day is that an audit has found that former New Mexico Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron misused federal voter education funds. NMI’s Trip Jennings has that story here.
By 2020 global warming could cost New Mexicans thousands of dollars a year, writes John Fleck in the Albuquerque Journal. A recent study shows that climate change would increase floods, droughts and wildfires in the state.
Also today, the Los Alamos Monitor reviews ways in which Los Alamos National Laboratory disposes of and secures nuclear waste. In the wrong hands, these radioactive sources could be used to create “dirty bombs.” LANL’s Off-Site Recovery Project, staffed by only 15 full-time employees, scours the world, securing a wide array metallic containers of radioactive materials. The OSRP has recovered a total of 20,000 unwanted sealed sources in the United States since 1997.
Creating new jobs and bringing more of Hollywood to the state, DreamWorks Animation says it will use the supercomputer at New Mexico’s Computing Applications Center to render its 3-D films, reports the New Mexico Business Weekly. Housed at Intel in Rio Rancho, this supercomputer ranks in as the 12th-fastest non-federal computer in the world.
And Portales doctor Patricia Green has been indicted for handing out methadone prescriptions like candy, according to the Portales News-Tribune. The investigation has pulled more than 50 of her patients’ files from her clinic. Law enforcement officials say Green has been shady with her patients’ paperwork and has coached patients in order to avoid suspicion when filling her prescriptions. She also faces a state charge of trafficking the controlled substance. She awaits federal trial.
In Facebook news, the Web site Consumerist fought and defeated (temporarily, at least) a change in Facebook terms of use that Consumerist said would mean the social networking site could keep users’ data long after they had changed it or deleted their accounts. Confused? Read more at the New York Times.
NMI’s Danielle Bauer gets nowhere near enough credit for researching our top stories every day. Except now.
