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 growing number of New Mexico dairies are going out of business due to plummeting milk prices, KOAT reports. There’s a 2 percent excess supply because of reduced demand in the export market. It really is a global recession.
In potentially positive news, though, Eclipse Aviation may have found buyers to lift the company out of bankruptcy. The new prospective owners say they’d call the company Eclipse Jet LLC.
A 5,500-strong security force made up of federal troops and police is in Ciudad Juárez is trying to quell the violence between drug cartels, Rene Romo of the Albuquerque Journal reported on Sunday.
In 2008, there were more than 1,600 killings in that city alone, with about 6,000 throughout Mexico. During the first two months of 2009, there were 380 killings. The issue is control of lucrative cross-border transit routes to supply the Unites States citizens with their drugs. The Juarez border crossing sees about 40 percent of that traffic.
On the economic stimulus money front, the Albuquerque Journal points out that the funds being used to buy ABQ Ride buses will create actual jobs in Minnesota and Canada, where the buses are made. City officials say they’d buy the buses here, if they were made here, but since they’re not, keeping the city’s mass transit system up to date is a worthy use of the funds, because a “traffic-clogged, polluted” city isn’t good for investment.
You know those emergency phones that dot college campuses? The ones women like to know are there? Well, New Mexico State University is removing their emergency “blue-light” phones starting this week. Increased cell phone usage for emergencies, combined with a growing number of prank calls made on the blue-light phones, convinced the school that the phones are no longer necessary.
