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.
New Mexicans want more oil drilling and nuclear energy. So says the Albuquerque Journal, which released poll results related to energy in an article yesterday. There are sharp partisan differences in the numbers, with Republicans overwhelmingly favoring increased drilling off-shore and the Alaska National Wildlife Refuge plus expansion of nuclear power. But Democrats are in favor of those three also by healthy margins. The Journal didn’t report any numbers in the article about whether New Mexicans think we need an increased investment in alternative energy production–such as solar, wind, and geothermal.
As many already know, New Mexicans have difficulty getting health insurance. But did you know we’re at the bottom of the pile? The Associated Press reports that the Economic Policy Institute found in a new study that we’re ranked last in the nation for those covered by an employer sponsored health insurance plan. Eric Griego, Executive Director of NM Voices for Children, told the AP that programs like Medicaid and the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (commonly referred to as SCHIP) help children and low-income adults, “but there’s little out there for middle-income workers who can’t get or afford coverage through work.”
The number of homicides in Juarez this year is astronomical, to the point that the Las Cruces Sun-News headlines it’s latest update as “At least 25 killed in bloody Juárez weekend.” Because, hey, there may be more. Most of the 25, the Sun-News reports, were killed with a gun. There have been more than 1,070 homicides in Juarez this year.
On the national front, its nice to know that one of my favorite New York Times columnists, Paul Krugman, is a real economist after all. He was just awarded the Nobel Prize for Economics.
