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 New Mexico Supreme Court acted Tuesday to halt the White Peak land swap, at least temporarily, the Santa Fe New Mexican reported. The court wants a response from State Land Commissioner Pat Lyons by February 15.
Yesterday, Attorney General Gary King announced his lawsuit to halt the White Peak land swap.
“We are asking the Court for a writ of mandamus and an emergency stay that prohibits further exchanges of state trust lands by the land commissioner that violate the New Mexico Constitution,” King said in a statement yesterday. Today, the emergency stay was granted.
King alleges that the land swap, which would swap public land in the White Peak area for private land, violates the Enabling Act of 1910.
