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.
New Mexico is suffering from a “brain drain” — a big-time “brain-drain,” according to a story by KUNM’s Jim Williams.
Apparently 60 percent of native New Mexicans have left the state, and only 2 percent of them come back. That’s what Dely Alcantara found, according to Williams. Alcantara is the senior demographer at the University of New Mexico Bureau of Business and Economic Research.
“I was quite surprised by that,” Alcantara tells Williams. “‘Cause I’ve always been told, at least anecdotally, that New Mexicans love the state…that, you know, although there is migration out of the state, that eventually they come back.”
