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.
Beginning at 3 p.m., NMI will host a live blog of Rep. Martin Heinrich’s town hall on health care reform. The event will be held at the UNM Continuing Education Building in Albuquerque, but it is expected to fill up quickly. We’ll be using live video from KNME-TV for our live blog, so join us! The whole hour and a half will be dedicated to questions from the audience, who will write them down on cards as they enter the auditorium. Moderator Augusta Meyers will draw questions at random without pre-screening them. Heinrich will be joined by 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.
