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.
Worried that their bill may be doomed to die in an unsympathetic committee, activists from the Sierra Club and Animal Protection of New Mexico are mobilizing their members to ask House Speaker Ben Lujan to remove House Bill 73 from the Business and Industry Committee. The bill would prohibit landowners from killing animals who are eating or destroying crops on their land and instead provide them with support for fencing.
Heather Ferguson of Animal Protection of New Mexico said Friday that the measure had already cleared one committee when it was re-assigned to House Business and Industry. Ferguson said Governor Richardson and the State Department of Game and Fish are behind the measure.
The bill was inspired by a 2008 incident when 61 antelope were killed on private land in southeast New Mexico. A similar bill made it through the state Senate last session but ran out of time on the House floor.
