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…
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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.
If you’ve wondered whether or not Mayor Martin Chavez thinks development of all the land between Albuquerque and the Rio Puerco to the west should happen or not, you’re in luck. He answered the question from KKOB 770 news reporter Peter St. Cyr at his announcement for mayor yesterday.
The question, he said, isn’t whether the development should occur, but how it will occur.
“I’ve never supported growth boundaries because we already have them,” he said, listing the river on the west, the mountains on the east, and the pueblos on the north and south.
“The question isn’t whether we grow,” he continued, “but how we grow, what goes in that space, and that’s what I’m committed to — really good planned growth that’s sustainable. I think that’s going to be very important to our future.”
When asked where the water is going to come from for that future growth, Chavez said the city had secured its future with the San Juan-Chama river water project.
