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.
Here’s are two signs of how bad other states’ budgets are: Nevada “Gov. Jim Gibbons has asked staff members to explore whether the state can drop out of the Medicaid program, which provides free health care to more than 233,000 Nevadans,” the Las Vegas Review-Journal reports. The state’s legislative leaders wonder if this is for real or an election-year gimmick. Meanwhile, “Arizona is on the verge of permanently closing more than half of its state parks to ease its budget woes,” according to the Arizona Republic. The plan would close the Tombstone Courthouse and the Yuma Territorial Prison, and shut down parks that draw tens of thousands of tourists a year such as Red Rock State Park, the paper reports.
In Texas, “taxes and testiness dominated the first debate between the Republican candidates for governor, as Gov. Rick Perry and U.S. Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison each suggested the other had lost contact with the truth,” reports the Dallas Morning News.
In Haiti, “conditions in this earthquake-ravaged nation grew more dire on Friday morning as rescuers raced against time to find anyone still alive beneath mountains of rubble while aid workers struggled to deliver relief supplies to survivors increasingly desperate for food and clean water,” the New York Times reported.
The Times also had several other stories about the aftermath of the catastrophic quake, Here they are:
“With relief flights snarled at Port-au- Prince airport, international relief agencies struggled Friday to find alternative routes for aid in the face of survivors’ angry criticism that no help was getting through.”
“Hundreds of bodies, those of adults and children alike, were piled outside the morgue, bloated under the blazing sun. Relatives picked their way around them trying to find the missing, trying to block out the putrid smell.”
“Fox News correspondent Steve Harrigan is a veteran of the world’s worst calamities, but on television on Thursday afternoon, as he stood beside one of the piles of rubble that pockmark Port-au-Prince, Haiti, he broke down. He had watched a woman wailing in the street, having lost four of her children to Tuesday’s earthquake and the fifth child at a hospital later.”
A burst of donations via mobile phones following the Haiti earthquake has provided millions for the relief agencies.
Here’s an AP video of a reporter describing what he’s witnessed in Haiti after arriving following the quake.
In the media world, Editor & Publisher, the only independent news organization reporting on all aspects of the transforming newspaper business, is staying open thanks to Duncan McIntosh Co. Inc., the Irvine, Calif.-based magazine and newspaper publisher that bought it Thursday. As a newspaper alum, I’m giddy that E&P is back in business.
