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.
Local bloggers are refusing to let the Albuquerque Journal get away with anything these days.
First, Cocoposts questions one Journal writer’s claim to coining the term “grief porn.” The Journal’s Leslie Linthicum defines the term as, “to describe the obsessive, self-pleasuring nature of the reactions of a particular group of bystanders to a particularly horrible Albuquerque crime.”
But Coco thinks Linthicum doesn’t deserve credit for coining the term and has the links to prove it.
The second hit to the Journal comes from the SFReeper in “Newspaper Doom: Journal Couldn’t Hold the Front Page?” This blogger shows why the Journal publishes front page news that quickly turns into yesterday’s headline, with no apparent concern. No need to give you the details here, just check it out.
Then we move to question racism in America, as local blogger Mario Burgos weighs in on the Henry Louis Gates, Jr. incident. Burgos believes people are taking the case too seriously, gives an anecdote about his history of getting pulled over for racial profiling (while suggesting the officer was merely doing his job), and why President Obama should not be focused on the matter at all.
And in other unrelated events, back to SFReeper post, “Pawn the Roundhouse!” Should New Mexico attempt to lease out the Roundhouse, as Arizona lawmakers are, looking to make $735 million by leasing out their government buildings?
