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 nuclear commission to which former U.S. Sen. Pete Domenici was recently named is getting flak from the left and right, according to the Wall Street Journal.
“On the right, some Republicans are questioning the need for a panel and saying the group’s recommendations won’t be taken seriously if it doesn’t consider the proposed nuclear-waste repository at Yucca Mountain in Nevada,” the Wall Street Journal wrote.
“It’s like it [Yucca] doesn’t exist, so let’s get on with it,” Domenici told the Wall Street Journal in an interview on Friday.
As for the concerns from the left:
The Alliance for Nuclear Accountability, which represents communities near U.S. nuclear weapons sites, says the commission “faces a huge credibility problem” because “it includes no one from communities downstream and downwind of major nuclear weapons sites.”
