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.
Some states, struggling to balance their budgets, are selling or leasing public property, including state office buildings, prisons and major toll ways, and Stateline.org has a story that examines the pros and cons of such decisions.
Texas Gov. Rick Perry thinks his state has a better handle on what school students in Texas should learn than the federal government, and as such is ignoring a move to establish national standards for English and math instruction in public schools, according to the Dallas Morning News.
Here’s an excerpt from the story:
Perry issued a letter Tuesday – just as rival Kay Bailey Hutchison was announcing education policy proposals – to state Education Commissioner Robert Scott reiterating his opposition to federal standards.
Texas education officials, with Perry’s backing, told the U.S. Department of Education in June that the state would not participate with most other states in developing the standards, spelling out what students at all grade levels should be taught in those subjects.
President Obama will travel to Copenhagen at the start of the United Nations conference on climate change on Dec. 9 just before flying to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize, the New York Times reports.
Meanwhile, former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s book is flying off the shelves, selling 700,000 copies in its first week, according to the Associated Press.
The Washington Post, once one of the most ambitious American newspapers, is closing the last of its U.S. bureaus, meaning the paper will no longer have a presence in New York, Los Angeles and Chicago, the paper’s media critic, Howard Kurtz, reports.
The Toyota Motor Corporation said Wednesday that it would replace accelerator pedals on 3.8 million recalled vehicles in the United States to address problems with the pedals becoming jammed in the floor mat, according to the Associated Press.
