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.
A statewide poll conducted for the Albuquerque Journal shows Barack Obama leading John McCain by 5 points, and Tom Udall leading Steve Pearce 51 to 36 percent. But that’s not stopping McCain from visiting–he’ll be at the University of New Mexico today for a rally.
The Los Alamos Monitor has an interesting analysis piece about Obama and McCain on science and technology issues. Both get high marks for being supportive of innovation. During the debate, Obama emphasized science and technology as very important across a spectrum of issues, while McCain focused on their importance to energy.
Remember the casino that Oklahoma’s Fort Sill Apache tribe built about 40 miles west of Las Cruces, that Governor Bill Richarson says is illegal? Richardson blocked the tribe from beginning it’s gaming operation, but the facility is open as a cafe. The Las Cruces Sun-News reported yesterday that the National Indian Gaming Commission has withdrawn its legal opinion from last spring that said the tribe couldn’t conduct gaming at the site. The Commission said in court documents that it’s “reviewing and reconsidering” the opinion in light of new arguments made by the tribe.
On the national front, consumer spending is way, way down, despite the commitment by the government to undertake a massive bailout of Wall Street last week. The New York Times says that we might see the first quarterly decline in spending in two decades. The article attributes it to anxiety among the public, from the “impact of the financial news of the last two weeks.” But that didn’t stop the Times from positioning the article right next to a big graph showing the erratic Dow Jones industrial average today, not to mention an article about the spread of the financial crisis to Europe.
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