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.
First for the breaking news: Gov. Bill Richardson has named a new Bernalillo County Commissioner. It’s Maggie Hart Stebbins, and Democracy for New Mexico has the info.
More big news: Peter St. Cyr has the goods on the New Mexico Supreme Court’s consideration later today of the constitutionality of the death penalty.
You may be wondering, didn’t the state abolish the death penalty earlier this year? It did. But that legislation doesn’t apply to the two men already on death row or anyone who might commit an executable offense before the bill takes effect next month.
Meanwhile, SFReeper reports on the governor declaring this week Bike to Work Week. Perhaps you won’t be surprised to learn that he doesn’t plan to bike to work this week. Hmm…
For the record, I don’t plan to bike to work either, but my office is down the hallway from my bedroom.
