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.
After Deming experienced tremors earlier this week, it was determined that the shaking was due to “sound waves from explosions at the Playas Training and Research Center,” the Las Cruces Sun-News reports. However, officials at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology say that the speed with which the waves reached Deming was unusual. And once again in New Mexico, prairie dogs make the news. The Taos News reports that the Questa High Schoolhomecoming game is being delayed in order to install a prairie dog barrier. Officials connected to the construction claim that the concern for the prairie dogs were merely an “oversight.”
San Juan College President Carol Spencer says “nooooooooo!” to a horror film that wanted to film on campus, the A.P. reports. She claims “the filming has no connection to the college’s purposes or mission.” The film’s production will move to another area of Farmington.
Downtown Truth or Consequences has become a thoroughfare to reach the construction site of Spaceport America, and some residents demand a change, according to the Albuquerque Journal. During construction, loud trucks will make over 10,000 round-trips through the city, which may negatively affect their tourism and fry residents’ nerves.
