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 Federal Trade Commission on Wednesday sued the chip maker Intel, accusing it of using its dominant market position “to stifle competition and strengthen its monopoly,” reports the New York Times. Intel has a big presence in New Mexico in the form of a huge, sprawling plant in Rio Rancho. It’s unclear how the suit will affect Intel here, the but the world’s largest chip maker has in recent years trimmed the number of employees at the Rio Rancho plant.
Meanwhile, Wisconsin may be forced to cut more than $1 billion over the next 18 months from BadgerCare Plus and other health care programs for the disabled, elderly and low-income families, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports. BadgerCare Plus is Medicaid by another name, meaning it’s the government’s low income health insurance program. Wisconsin’s hurt sounds similar to New Mexico’s. New Mexico also is proposing significant cuts to its Medicaid programs.
A former speaker of the Pennsylvania State House and a fixture in the Capitol for three decades, was accused of theft yesterday in the latest round of criminal charges to grow out of that state’s Bonusgate scandal, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
A decision to prohibit many of California’s lowest-income women in their 40s ineligible for free breast cancer screenings by the state beginning New Year’s Day has stirred a hornet’s nest of opposition from lawmakers and others who argue that early detection saves lives, the Sacramento Bee reports.
From the media world, the New York Times’ management was dealt a setback in its effort to cut staff after the troubled newspaper company lost an arbitration hearing on allegations it tried to rig the union’s seniority rules in order to lay off workers, according to New York Post.
And word has it that The New Republic magazine is about to make significant staff cuts, reports FishbowlDC.
