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.
The Albuquerque Journal’s Thomas J. Cole has an insightful column on the political ambitions of Lt. Gov. Diane Denish on the newspaper’s front page today. The most fascinating part deals with Denish’s task of separating herself from Gov. Bill Richardson as the state GOP appears set to run against Democratic corruption in 2010 — real or perceived.
Meanwhile, Steve Terrell of the Santa Fe New Mexican reports on repealing the repeal — i.e. reinstating capital punishment in New Mexico. “Repeal the repeal” is the catchy name of the group led by Bernalillo County Sheriff Darren White. According to Terrell, in less than one month, the group raised over $30,000, most of which that went to funding a television ad campaign.
After a string of troubling incidents, the state’s largest juvenile jail — YDDC — is planning an overhaul, KOAT-TV reports. The jail will apparently implement a new model of operating, one in which violence is not tolerated, violent offenders are separated from low risk inmates, and inmates will be kept in small groups.
Also, KUNM radio is tracking the state’s nearly two-year-old cockfighting ban. Specifically, the New Mexico Gamefowl Association recently tried to overturn the ban, saying it violated the state constitution. The New Mexico Court of Appeals denied their claims and upheld the ban.
After coming under fire for using religious curriculum, the Bloomfield school board has voted to close the Bloomfield Family Home School. Although school officials have explained and defended their use of A Beka, a popular Christian home school curriculum, the school board will shut down the use of such materials, and the school will be shut down as well, so reports the Farmington Daily-Times.
NMI’s Danielle Bauer contributed to this post.
