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.
Turns out that the Four Corners marker – straddling the borders of New Mexico, Arizona, Utah and Colorado — is actually 2.5 miles off. Surveying errors made by the U.S. government in 1868 have never been reviewed until now, according to a story in today’s Alamogordo Daily News.
APS received no funding for technology this year. Funding for computers and other new technological tools ranges from $6M to $8 per district, but this year totaled $0.
Sticking with the Duke City, passenger capacity at the Albuquerque Sunport is declining. To make up for economic problems, airlines have been using smaller planes for direct flights, or merely cutting flights altogether. The Sunport itself is having to face cuts to maintain its budget.
And lastly, the New Mexico Business Weekly reports today on the way green homebuilding may be affected by the economic recession.
NMI’s Danielle Bauer contributed to this post.
