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.
Think New Mexico, a non-profit think tank, counts three Democratic state senators who voted for a budget package that included a food tax, but now say they’re urging Gov. Bill Richardson to veto the measure.
The lawmakers include Sens. Nancy Rodgriguez, Steve Fischmann and Sen. Eric Griego, D-Albuquerque, who said last week on KNME’s New Mexico in Focus that he would prefer to have another special session and come up with better way to find $68 million.
According to the think tank, more than 1,900 New Mexicans have contacted Governor Richardson to ask him to veto the reimposition of the food tax.
