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.
Anthony is becoming an official city after residents there voted overwhelmingly in favor of incorporation on Tuesday.
With results from both polling places and early and absentee ballots counted, 410 people, or 73 percent, voted in favor of incorporation, while 151 people, or 27 percent, voted against it, according to Doña Ana County Chief Deputy Clerk Mario Jimenez.
Turnout was 561, or 22 percent, of the 2,615 people eligible to vote in the election, Jimenez said. The results are still unofficial, but will be canvassed Friday and presented to the county commission a week from today for approval.
Anthony is a community of almost 8,000 residents, and 38 percent of them live below the poverty level. The proposed new city would encompass a little more than 2.5 square miles.
The last incorporation vote in the county was in 2005 in Chaparral, and it failed.
