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.
“It’s raining subpoenas,” The Santa Fe New Mexican’s Kate Nash screams from her blog today.
“You mean you haven’t gotten one yet?” she asks. “Seems like it’s almost in style these days to get a subpoena.”
She’s referring, of course, to reports about a new subpoena issued to a state agency in relation to the state’s $1 billion behavioral health services contract. And she lists many of the other publicly disclosed subpoenas issued to state officials in various investigations.
There are some other things going on in the blogosphere as well. Mario Burgos frowns yet again at the moves made by the Obama administration — this time regarding paid sick days.
Cocoposts compares the budget shortfalls between Denver and Albuquerque and the differences between the ways each city is handling its economic woes.
And Democracy for New Mexico hosts a guest blog by Stephanie DuBois, a Democratic Party CD-2 vice chair from Tularosa. Her topic: health-care reform.
Away from the world of politics, Duke City Fix talks about the “world’s only Slam Poet Laureate Program.” The 505 is the place to be after hosting the world’s largest national poetry slam in 2005 — and winning.
NMI’s Danielle Bauer pretty much wrote this post.
