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.
Today we’re going to go to the conservative side of the blogosphere, and we’ll start with the state’s king of that side of things, Mario Burgos. He’s going after the way stimulus money is being spent:
“When you heard that the government was planning on spending billions upon billions of dollars on ‘shovel-ready’ projects, you assumed that meant construction projects. You couldn’t have been more wrong,” he writes. “… In fact, in New Mexico and around the country, social spending, not construction, is in line to be the biggest winner in the ambitious federal effort to spark a sluggish economy.”
“Turns out that shovel-ready has nothing to do with reinvesting in America’s ailing infrastructure. Instead, the term shovel-ready refers to the main instrument American taxpayers will need to dig themselves out from under the pile of, shall we call it manure, being relabeled as a stimulus package,” Burgos writes.
Onward. Jim Scarantino of the libertarian Rio Grande Foundation writes on New Mexico Liberty about his new investigative report:
“‘A Failure by Any Measure,’ is my latest report on the State Investment Council’s New Mexico private equity investment program,” he writes. “After 15 years, and $378 million, it is running an average 8.3% loss.”
Scarantino claims that only 1,000 jobs can be credited to the program, so they cost $378,000 apiece to create.
Finally, W. Ron Camuñez, an active and moderate Republican, writes on his blog against a proposed ordinance in Las Cruces that would allow domestic chickens within the city limits.
“This is a serious health risk to our community and our families,” he claims. “… The only reason why Avian Flu or Swine Flu or H1N1 outbreaks have not been detected here is because we do not literally live with our poultry, horses, pigs, etc. as do families in Asia, Mexico and other underdeveloped nations…”
