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.
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar Wednesday morning declined to say whether he would run for the governor’s office in the wake of Bill Ritter stunning announcement Wednesday that he won’t seek a second term, the Colorado Independent reports.
Baltimore Mayor Sheila Dixon resigned Wednesday, part of a plea deal that brings to a close a years-long corruption investigation and ends the tenure of the city’s first female mayor, the Baltimore Sun reports.
It may be hard times in California, but you wouldn’t necessarily have known it from Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s state of the state speech Wednesday. The Governator exhorted lawmakers to overhaul the funding system for state prisons and higher education, approve a jobs creation package and seek more money from Washington, even as he attacked the national healthcare plan, reports the Los Angeles Times.
Washington state will appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court in an attempt to overturn a surprising federal-court ruling that tossed out the state’s 120-year-old prohibition against voting by incarcerated felons, according to the Seattle Times.
