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.
There’s lots of coverage of today’s Albuquerque municipal election floating around on the Internet. Here are some of the other things that are going on today on the blogosphere.
• Capital Report New Mexico has an interesting piece about a Wall Street Journal attack on PNM and other companies who are bailing from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce over the climate change divide. While the Journal recently attacked PNM and other such companies because they stand to profit from their position on climate change, Capital Report says, “PNM CEO Jeff Sterba really believes this stuff. He’s kind of Al Goresq, speaking passionately and somewhat annoyingly at several annual meetings.” “He’s wrong, of course,” the posting states. “But that’s another story.”
• On to Mario Burgos, who wants you to know that a recent commentary by state Rep. Brian Egolf, D-Santa Fe, is an attempt a “killing two birds with one stone” — the “evil rich people” and “making the case for a tax increase.”
Of course, Burgos argues that Egolf is wrong.
• Sticking with budgetary issues, Democracy for New Mexico has an interesting guest post today from middle-school teacher Scot Key, who is attending a Friday “march/rally/protest/gathering/bitchfest/media event” in Santa Fe in opposition to cuts in public school funding. He’s urging others to attend too. Or maybe not.
“Teachers, just come to the shindig on Friday. Or don’t. No big deal either way. Just remember your non-attendance the next time you watch ‘Animal House’, and see/hear Otter make that ‘Well, you can do whatever you want to us, but we’re not going to sit here and listen to you badmouth the United States of America’ speech,” Key writes.
