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 blogs are just as diverse as the state of New Mexico itself today.
We start off with an issue that has raised many an eyebrow: The “America’s Greatest Education Governor” award accepted by Gov. Bill Richardson last week. NMSU political scientist and blogger Jose Z. Garcia picks apart how and why Richardson could recieve such an award. He writes:
Given the record of failure in New Mexico education, why would the NEA give the governor its award?
The answer, of course, lies in the politics of education.
And from the governor to the mayor, former ABQ Mayor Jim Baca questions Martin Chavez’s plans to hire 100 new police officers. In addition to Marty’s coming under fire for taking a quantity-over-quality approach with previous APD hirings, Baca sums up what he thinks Chavez is up to:
It took him 7 years to hire the last 100, if they have even reached that number of 1100. Now, as an election year ploy he says more are needed.
From one watchdog to another, Democracy for New Mexico highlights the recent launch of ABQ Journal Watch. As local journalists and bloggers have been covering what seems to some to be a problematic political agenda within the Journal, two former Journal reporters plan to watch over the city’s largest newspaper. See why they think the self-proclaimed “paper of record” may not be holding true to its name.
Finally, Clearly New Mexico wraps up the critical blog world with local blogger Juan Sky’s commentary on the Waxman-Markey climate change bill. Although the climate legislation has passed the House, see why the bill may not achieve what was previously hoped for in what this blogger calls “a breath of not so fresh air.” Despite his doubts and disappointment, could this be a small step in the right direction?
