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 University of California’s Board of Regents is expected to raise students’ fees today by 32 percent, pushing the annual cost of a UC education, not including campus-based fees, to $10,302 — about triple the UC costs of a decade ago, according to the Los Angeles Times.
Meanwhile on the other coast, Connecticut lawmakers learned Wednesday that the state’s budget woes may get much worse in 2012, possibly growing to $3.4 billion from the current $385 million, the Associated Press reports.
And state transportation officials in Virginia laid out plans Wednesday to further slash $851.5 million from road-building operations over the next six years — meaning that the state’s six-year road plan has been reduced by $4.6 billion since spring 2008, according to the Virginian-Pilot.
U.S. Sen. Majority Leader Harry Reid and other Democratic leaders unveiled a health care reform proposal that they said would cover most of the country’s uninsured population and reduce the federal deficit, the New York Times reports.
Colum McCann’s “Let the Great World Spin,” a novel about daring, luck and mortality in 1970s New York, won the fiction prize Wednesday night at the 60th annual National Book Awards, according to the Associated Press.
