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.
Chris Lardner, an Albuquerque woman who introduced President Obama at a town hall on credit card reform in Rio Rancho last year, will sit with First Lady Michelle Obama tonight for the State of the Union address.
At the town hall, Lardner spoke about her family’s experience using a credit card to help pay for college tuition. (The Independent was there and live blogged the event with a panel of experts on credit card debt. You can read a transcript here.) Because of an accounting error at the school, Lardner’s interest rate was more than tripled, to nearly 30 percent. The situation has since been resolved.
In May 2009, President Obama signed a credit card reform bill that prevents credit card companies from unfairly raising interest rates on existing balances, protects against unfair fee traps (including requiring the consumer’s permission before processing an over-the-limit transaction), and increases accountability and transparency from credit card companies.
