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.
New Mexico is standing by its system of paying unemployment benefits by prepaid debit card despite criticism about Bank of America fees, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports.
Some New York nuns claim a Santa Fe gallery owner was part of a scheme to con them out of $1.75 million from the sale of a 19th-century painting, the Albuquerque Journal reports. For those of you who don’t subscribe, here’s an excerpt of the story:
The Daughters of Mary Mother of Our Savior filed a lawsuit claiming that Mark Zaplin, co-owner of the Zaplin/Lampert Gallery on Canyon Road, conspired with a New York art appraiser to buy the painting from their order for $450,000, then promptly resold it for $2 million.
Zaplin says all he did was buy low and sell high, and there was no conspiracy.
“These allegations are not based on any facts,” Zaplin said Thursday. “I have all my paperwork on all these transactions. I’ve never met any of these people.”
New Mexico air quality officials said Thursday the northwestern corner of the state — home to one of the nation’s largest natural gas fields and two coal-fired power plants — isn’t meeting the federal government’s new standard for ozone pollution, the Associated Press reports.
