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.
I want to start today with news about local “tea parties” coming to New Mexico. Paul Gessing, writing on New Mexico Liberty, has the info on the upcoming Albuquerque Tea Party and says a Santa Fe event is also in the works. These are gatherings being organized across the nation to protest wasteful spending and the nation’s economic direction.
Also on the economic front, NMI’s Marjorie Childress writes on her own blog, m-pyre, about “corporate blackmail.” She decries government acting “as an arm of big corporations” and uses the situation with SunCal and the Legislature as an example.
SunCal doesn’t need government funding to build its Albuquerque development, Childress writes, so the plan is “corporate blackmail, pure and simple — Sun Cal says they’ll simply build sprawling housing tracts otherwise, with big box stores. And as ever, our very weak government is going to fall for it.”
Meanwhile, New Mexico State University government professor Jose Z. Garcia has a posting on his blog about Ciudad Juarez’s essentially being under martial law.
And SFReeper.com has the goods on the possibility that Thornburg Mortgage is about to file for bankruptcy.
Such times.
