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.
An increasing number of Las Crucens are interested in gun ownership, the Las Cruces Sun-News reports today. A local firearms instructor says she’s seeing more students who are concerned about “danger brought about by rising poverty, dwindling opportunities to earn a living, and a recognition that police can’t be everywhere.”
In other news, housing is a big issue in the state right now. Lordsburg is “desperate” for housing as demands rise with the influx of more and more border agents working for Homeland Security. Agents are forced to commute from other towns, which some fear will decrease the post’s retention rate. Officials want to make security efficient on the border but also capitalize on the possibility of economic growth.
Although the Santa Fe market has been in the dumps, the current environment is promising for first-time buyers and affordable housing, according to the Santa Fe New Mexican.
Meanwhile, as the Farmington Daily Times reports, the City Council will again debate La Plata Ranch, a 562-home housing development proposed by a company that wants the city to pay for infrastructure, including a sewer line, road and bridge over the La Plata River. The land on which the development would be built is owned by the wife of the only candidate running for mayor.
The Las Cruces Sun-News has a story about “turning pools of green algae into piles of green money.” Researchers at NMSU are working on turning algae into fuel and as it turns out, New Mexico is one of the few states in the country with a climate able to grow the algae.
