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 New Mexico Environment Department has fined Los Alamos National Laboratory and the Dept. of Energy nearly $1 million for failing to monitor groundwater in a waste dump area, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports. About this, the Labs’ second fine, one Environmental Dept. official states: “I am extremely disappointed that the laboratory would rather pay penalties or fight legal battles than do the right thing.”
KRQE profiles aNavajo factory near Farmington that builds parts for America’s most “high-tech tools of war,” and has done so for the past 20 years. The Raytheon plant employs over 300 people, and continues to report growth despite the sickened economy.
The New Mexico Business Weekly reports that New Mexico is “no longer worst in food insecurity” nationally. This scale measures access to adequate food based on limitations by lack of money and other resources. The state, however, is now ranked 45th, meaning that one in five NM children does not know when he or she will eat again.
The Los Alamos Monitor writes on Magistrate Court Judge Pat Casados’ hope to secure a third term.
And Governor Richardson has appointed Katie Falls to head up the state Human Services Department, says the AP. Falls and her department administer social services, including Medicaid and the food stamps program.
