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…
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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.
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The National Trust for Historic Preservation says that Mt. Taylor is among the nation’s most endangered places, joining Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple in Oak Park, Illinois and the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles, among other places.
Mt. Taylor, which is located near Grants, New Mexico, the New York Times says, “is a sacred site for American Indian tribes whose cultural and archaeological resources are threatened by uranium mining.”
“It focuses not only local attention but national,” Richard Moe, president of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, said of the list, “and helps to mobilize both human and financial resources.”
So what is the list for?
Each year the trust selects what it considers important examples of the nation’s architectural, cultural and natural heritage that are at risk of being destroyed or irreparably damaged.
The statewide partner to the National Trust for Historic Preservation is the New Mexico Heritage Preservation Alliance.
