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.
The government workers’ union is asking Governor Bill Richardson to veto the part of the recently passed budget bill that requires him to cut state agency budgets by 7.6 percent. ”Additional cuts of nearly 8 percent, which is closer to 10-12 percent because we are five months into the fiscal year, will deny much needed services to a significant part of our state’s population,” Joel Villarreal of the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSCME) said in a news release Thursday.Gov. Richardson, the Human Services Department and the Corrections Department have all balked at the cuts this week.
Also quoted in the AFSCME release was Patrick Gutierrez, president of the local for state employees in Las Vegas, who said: “We understand the meaning of shared sacrifice in these though times. Moderate cuts along with enhanced revenue streams is the only we can get out of this mess, but we must make sure that any cuts or revenue enhancements are responsible and are done in a way to help us recover quickly and not dig us deeper in a hole.”
