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 number of executions in the United States increased this year, but the number of new death sentences handed down fell to the lowest total since capital punishment was reinstated in 1976, according to a new report from the Death Penalty Information Center, noted today by the Washington Post. That report comes a few months after Gov. Bill Richardson signed legislation to abolish the death penalty, although that law doesn’t apply to offenders on death row before the law took effect.
While a public health insurance option has disappeared from health reform legislation debated in the U.S. Senate, a public option could come up for consideration in the Vermont Legislature this winter, according to the Burlington Free Press.
An inspector general’s report found that the New York State Police overlooked evidence of pervasively shoddy forensics work at a state crime lab the agency supervised, allowing an analyst to go undetected for 15 years as he falsified test results and compromised nearly one-third of his cases, the New York Times reports.
By percentage, Louisiana’s personal income fell more than any other state in the third quarter, a federal agency reported Thursday, according to the Baton Rouge Advocate.
Since the terror attacks of 2001, the F.B.I. and Muslim and Arab-American leaders across the country have worked to build a relationship of trust, sharing information both to fight terrorism and to protect the interests of mosques and communities. But those relations have reached a low point in recent months, many Muslim leaders tell the New York Times.
Faced with beefed-up security on the border, drug cartels are soliciting some of their own operatives to apply for jobs with the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, which is in the midst of a hiring boom, according to the New York Times.
Oh, and what else is going on. Let’s see…well, that American Gypsum wallboard plant in Bernalillo, that icon of the commute between Albuquerque and Santa Fe, is closing. No longer will Albuquerqueans get that “almost home!” feeling upon sighting its giant plume of steam. <sigh> Owners of the plant cited the poor economy as the reason for the closure; the company’s plant near Journal Center will continue to operate.
