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.
Thousands of people in Haiti — including the head of the United Nations mission — remained missing in the rubble of collapsed buildings on Wednesday morning, a day after an earthquake ravaged this impoverished nation, the New York Times reports. Officials estimate that thousands may be dead because of the catastrophic quake.
Back in the U.S., states are cutting it close in their efforts to meet next week’s Jan. 19 deadline to apply for their share of $4.35 billion in federal education grants. Stateline.org reports on where certain states stand:
The grants, known as Race to the Top funds, are part of the federal stimulus plan and will be awarded to certain states that change their policies to advance the Obama administration’s education goals. Interested states must allow more charter schools, submit plans to improve their worst-performing schools and tie teacher evaluations to student test scores, among other changes.
Newly constructed hospitals, schools, shopping malls and homes in California will be some of the greenest in the world, after a state commission voted unanimously Tuesday to approve the most stringent, environmentally friendly building code standards of any state in the nation, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Meanwhile in Pennsylvania, natural-gas drillers yesterday bid $128.5 million to develop 32,000 acres of Pennsylvania state forests, twice the revenue the state had budgeted, prompting fears of a headlong rush to overrun public lands to tap into the rich Marcellus Shale, according to the Philadelphia Inquirer.
New York Times columnist Jim Dwyer reports that city officials destroyed tons of new, unworn clothing and footwear last year that had been seized in raids on counterfeit label operations, abandoning a practice of giving knockoff garments to groups that help the needy. Here’s my question: What are they thinking?
In the nation’s capital, lobbyist Paul Magliocchetti is now the focus of a federal investigation into whether he made illegal campaign contributions to powerful congressmen by reimbursing people, or “straw donors,” who made contributions in their names to his favored candidates – helping the lobbyist avoid federal limits on his personal donations, according to a long, detailed report from the Washington Times.
On the tech front, Google Inc. is saying it might leave China after an investigation found the company had been hit with major cyber attacks it believes originated from the country — a move that would amount to a high-profile rebuke of China by a major U.S. firm, the Wall Street Journal reports.
Meanwhile, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg says the age of privacy is over. ReadWriteWeb analyzes that statement and Facebook’s recent decision to make FB members’ information searchable on the Internet.
