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.
About six million Americans are living on nothing but food stamps, according to an analysis by the New York Times. The paper profiles several recipients in Florida who are representative of the growing trend as the country’s economic travails continue.
Pennsylvania state legislators may consider easing some harsh sentencing guidelines so that nonviolent offenders aren’t automatically sent to prison for lengthy terms. The proposal comes as the state’s prisons are seriously overpopulated, causing policy makers to decide recently to ship inmates to other states, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reports.
Yemeni government forces killed two suspected Qaeda militants on Monday and wounded others in a firefight 25 miles north of the capital, Yemeni officials said, tying the militants to the continuing threats directed against the United States and British Embassies here, according to the Times. The action was the latest by the U.S. in targeting a Yemeni group whose member tried to blow up an airliner headed to Detroit on Christmas Day.
On the media front, anyone who worked at a newspaper for any length of time knew an editor like Deborah Howell, the former ombudsman at the Washington Post, or at least heard stories about one. Usually the editor in question was prodigiously profane, blisteringly smart, ambitious, sometimes scary, sometimes surprisingly sensitive. I didn’t know Howell, but I knew a couple of editors like her. Here’s a short, moving obit of Howell by David Carr at the New York Times.
