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.
We’ve just posted another response to this week’s Independent Forum question (on whether patrons should be allowed to carry concealed guns in restaurants) and you should check it out if you haven’t already.
Today, Bill Jordan of New Mexico Voices for Children writes about the years he spent interviewing, on behalf of the Child Fatality Review Board of the Office of the Medical Investigator, the families of children who committed suicide.
“These parents were devastated that the gun they bought to keep their family ‘safe’ became the instrument of their child’s certain death,” Jordan recalls.
