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.
The state’s budget crisis is in full swing but Rep. Joni Gutierrez, D-Mesilla, says she plans to introduce a memorial that would ask New Mexicans to recognize Pluto as a planet. (It was downgraded to “dwarf planet” status by the International Astronomical Union in 2006.)
“Pluto was this great little planet that sorta just went along and minded its own business, and then, when it was downgraded to a dwarf planet, or however they say it, it started getting a lot more attention. And I understand that some of the people that actually voted to downgrade it…profited from it, which just seems…unethical. So I’m going back in and making sure that at least in New Mexico, we recognize it,” Gutierrez told The Independent.
Pluto was discovered in 1930 by Clyde Tombaugh, who taught astronomy at New Mexico State University from 1955 until 1973.
Almost every question you can ask Rep. Gutierrez about her memorial begins with the word ‘why’. But she has answers for them all, at least for the ones we asked her in this video blog.
It should be noted a memorial is a kind of bill that, if passed, would not become an enforceable law.
