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 nation’s governors and state school chiefs will propose standards Wednesday for what students should learn in English and math, from kindergarten through high school, a crucial step in President Obama’s campaign to raise academic standards across the country, reports the Washington Post.
Two weeks after lawmakers voted to close Vermont Yankee in 2012, Vermont regulators are being pressed to act sooner — shutting it down immediately — because of leaking tritium that environmental groups say is polluting the environment, according to the Burlington Free Press.
A video released by a conservative advocacy organization in Washington, Keep America Safe, that questioned the loyalty of Justice Department lawyers who worked in the past on behalf of detained terrorism suspects has kicked up a storm in Washington, the New York Times reports. And it’s not just from liberals. The tactics of the group, which is run by Liz Cheney, the daughter of the former vice president, have also split the tightly knit world of conservative legal scholars, according to the paper.
In a sign of the media revolution going on, the Associated Press reports that it has hired a New York Times executive to help the not-for-profit news service sell consumer applications for the Apple iPad and other digital devices as more traditional sources of income dry up. The times, they are definitely a changin’.
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