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.
Edward Avalos, a Las Cruces native and New Mexico State University graduate, has been sworn in as Undersecretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs, according to the Associated Press.
Avalos is now the undersecretary for marketing and regulatory programs at the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA). He was nominated for the position in April of this year.
Avalos was approved by the full Senate on a voice vote on October 8.
The position, according to the current bio on the position at the USDA Web site, “helps to oversee policy development and the day-to-day operations of the 3 agencies that comprise the Marketing and Regulatory Programs mission area: the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service, the Agricultural Marketing Service, and the Grain Inspection, Packers, and Stockyards Administration.”
