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.
New Jersey is poised to become the 14th state to allow the use of medical marijuana by people suffering from debilitating diseases under a bill that received legislative approval on Monday, the Record of Bergen County reports.
Meanwhile in Washington state, five activists filed a ballot initiative Monday that would legalize all adult marijuana possession, manufacturing and sales under state law — one of the most sweeping efforts at changing marijuana laws around the country this year, according to the Associated Press.
The federal trial challenging California’s gay marriage ban opened Monday, setting the stage for a legal battle over the meaning of marriage and whether or not limiting it to heterosexual couples amounts to unconstitutional discrimination, reports the Christian Science Monitor.
For Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, blasting the federal government for California’s problems has become an oft-used routine since his first days in office. But in a new twist, federal officials are firing back, the Los Angeles Times reports.
Switching from state news to science, do apes and monkeys have a secret language that has not yet been decrypted? And if so, will it resolve the mystery of how the human faculty for language evolved? Those are the questions at the center of a New York Times story about the study of calls emitted by various monkeys and apes.
On the media front, Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism announced that it had raised $15 million to launch a new center focusing on digital journalism, FishbowlNY reports.
Meanwhile, Sarah Palin is joining Fox News as a contributor.
On the tech front, the geeks at ReadWriteWeb are starting a series called Mobile Web Meets Internet of Things in which it explores how these two important trends are converging — the Mobile Web and the Internet of Things. The Internet of Things is when everyday objects become connected to the Internet, via technologies such as RFID tags, sensors and bar codes, explains RWW. Smart phones like the iPhone, ones made by Blackberry and those using Android technology — the Mobile Web — can read these applications, and RWW predicts an explosion of such consumer behavior going forward.
On the health front — I know, not a regular feature in Trip’s morning reading — here’s a list of foods that you should be eating but likely aren’t, thanks to the New York Times health blog.
