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.
Congressman Martin Heinrich’s staff expects the health care town hall being held tomorrow in Albuquerque to be filled to capacity. The venue at the University of New Mexico Continuing Education Building holds 600 people, and they’ll have another room with televisions showing the panel discussion for another 300 people, according to a report in the Albuquerque Journal this morning.
Questions will be submitted by the first 600 people, and will be randomly selected by the moderator, Augusta Meyers. They won’t be pre-screened.
Heinrich’s office released the names of three panelists who will join the Albuquerque Democrat to answer questions from the audience. They are Michael Richards, chairman of the Department of Emergency Medicine at UNM’s School of Medicine; John R. Vigil, CEO and medical director of Doctor on Call; and Paul J. Gessing, president of the Rio Grande Foundation.
The event is from 3:00-4:30pm, but the organizers are encouraging people to get their early if they want to get in.
