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.
Maine Gov. John Baldacci this week will submit a budget proposal that assumes Congress will pass additional stimulus measures, Stateline.org reports today. That begs the question, How many other states, including New Mexico, will make the same assumption going into legislative session at the start of next year? (New Mexico’s legislative session begins in mid-January.) There’s talk in Congress about a big jobs bill to help states. Stay tuned.
Pennsylvania, meanwhile, is missing out on tax revenue thanks to a loophole and ignorance by consumers that allows online sales to go untaxed for the most part, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports. It’s a dilemma that many states face, including New Mexico. Basically purchases made online aren’t charged a sales tax, or in New Mexico’s case a gross receipts tax, by online vendors. Their brick-and-mortar counterparts do charge a tax, giving online vendors a price advantage.
A decade after Gov. Jeb Bush announced his controversial plan to end race-based university admissions, the number of minority students statewide has risen, according to a Miami Herald/St. Petersburg Times review of enrollment figures.
A New Jersey congregation has aggressively campaigned against deportation of members of an Indonesian congregation that shares its church building, leading some to wonder if the Obama administration is taking a more lenient approach to individuals in this country illegally, the New York Times reports.
A question over who’s in charge, as well as a Department of Energy investigation, has complicated a cleanup operation at South Carolina’s Savannah River Site, which spent most of the last half century producing 40 percent of the plutonium in the nation’s weapons stockpiles, according to the New York Times.
