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 Otero Tea Party Patriots, the Alamogordo Second Amendment Task Force and the Sons of Liberty Riders are cohosting a protest of the Obama administration this Saturday in Alamogordo, and according to the Alamogordo Daily News, attendees are encouraged to bring firearms.
Why bring firearms? To attract more attention to the event. From the Daily News:
“That’s what will be different (with Saturday’s protest). People will be wearing guns, which is legal in this state,” said Ralph West, a member of the Otero Tea Party Patriots. “We figured it would get some attention.”
West said he’s contacted several media outlets in New Mexico, as well as Fox News and former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.
“I think this will be the start of something big,” he said.
Las Vegas Mayor Tony Marquez announced this morning in a press release that he will not seek reelection. Marquez recently tried to persuade the City Council to open its meetings with a prayer, but councilors shot down the idea. Marquez had also pitched the same idea when he was a city councilor; his colleagues didn’t like the idea then, either.
In Albuquerque, Ed Adams might not get to keep his $147,000 paycheck after all, according to the Albuquerque Journal. A City Council analysis of the deal, by which former Mayor Martin Chavez let Adams keep his salary even after he moved to a lower-ranked job at City Hall, probably wouldn’t stand up in court, the analysis says.
Construction near New Mexico State University will connect the school’s Business and Research Park with the main campus, The Deming Headlight reports. The nearly $2 million investment plans to attract new investments and clients, while hoping to bringing thousands of high-paying jobs to the park in the future.
Unemployment in New Mexico remained steady in November, the AP notes. Despite an overall loss of 25,400 jobs over the past year, last month’s unemployment rate remained steady at 7.8 percent, while the national rate decreased to 10 percent.
AeroMexico flights from the Albuquerque Sunport to Chihuahua, Mexico will come to an end less than one year after the flight began. The ridership on each flight was an average of 20 percent, which had the state looking to ways to subsidize the flight that never came to fruition.
Southwest Solid Waste of Silver City will profit from a new plan to handle scrap metal, The Silver City Sun-News reports.
