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 Obama administration says it is settling a long-running and contentious lawsuit over royalties owed to American Indians, the Associated Press reports. Under an agreement announced today, the Interior Department will distribute $1.4 billion to more than 300,000 tribe members to compensate them for historical accounting claims, and to resolve future claims.
As health care reform dominates the nation’s capital, an actuarial report presented to West Virginia state legislators Monday said the state’s health-care system could save up to $2.2 billion a year beginning in 2014 with an aggressive expansion of Medicaid and other health reforms, according to the Charleston Gazette.
Montana voters, fed up with the grip of out-of-state mining interests on local politicians, passed an initiative in 1912 banning corporate spending on candidates for state office. As soon as Tuesday, that law — and similar ones in nearly half the states — could be struck down by the U.S. Supreme Court for infringing corporations’ free-speech rights, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Joseph L. Bruno, the former Senate majority leader who, until his retirement last year, was one of the most powerful figures in New York politics, was found guilty on Monday of concealing hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments from a businessman who sought help from the Legislature, reports the New York Times.
Despite recent fluctuations in global temperature year to year, which fueled claims of global cooling, a sustained global warming trend shows no signs of ending, according to new analysis by the World Meteorological Organization made public on Tuesday, the New York Times reports.
The Anglican Communion, which includes the Episcopal Church, continues to struggle through the issue of electing gay and lesbian spiritual leaders. The impetus for the latest clash was the recent election of a lesbian as an assistant bishop in the Episcopal Diocese of Los Angeles. That action prompted an unusually sharp and swift rebuke Sunday from the spiritual leader of the global Anglican Communion to church leaders in the U.S., according to the Los Angeles Times.
This morning Google announced that “offline Gmail” is leaving the Gmail Labs testing area and will be implemented as a standard feature for all users, according to ReadWriteWeb.
RWW’s post includes this explanation:
Once enabled, this feature allows you to access your Gmail even when no internet connection is available. You can read and respond to messages, star them or label them just as you would if you were online. When a connection is restored, all the changes you made are synced with Google’s servers and any messages in your Outbox are sent out.
Here’s a list of New York Times staffers taking the paper’s buyout offer, according to Gawker.
Finally, a medical doctor tries her hand at diagnosing various maladies affecting Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s greatest fictional creation — Sherlock Holmes. Among the disorders mentioned in the piece were bipolar disorder and Asperger’s Syndrome. The piece ran in the Sunday New York Times Magazine.
