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.
Talk about re-framing the debate, supporters of legalizing marijuana in California have ditched old arguments of harmlessness to tout the potential monetary windfall that taxing cannabis could bring to a state struggling with a $20 billion budgetary shortfall, the New York Times tells us. A recent estimate by the state’s Board of Equalization puts at $1 billion the amount of taxes that taxing marijuana would generate, a figure opponents dispute, the Times reports. It’ll be interesting to see if financial worries overcome the potent cultural arguments that have kept legalization of marijuana so far a pipe dream for supporters.
In a sign of the anger rising up from the political right Utah’s junior senator, Robert Bennett, is facing a stiff primary challenge this year, causing many of his GOP colleagues in the Senate to wonder how conservative must one be, reports the New York Times.
Onto economic issues, the editor of Stateline.org has penned, er, typed an essay on how different regions of that mythic, catch-all geographical term known as the Sunbelt are faring during these economic hard times. Given the data, he suggests there isn’t one Sunbelt anymore, if there ever was one. Areas that relied overly on real estate — Florida, Nevada — for growth in recent decades are languishing far worse than more diverse Sunbelt economies (Texas). It’s an interesting read for anyone living in the Sunbelt (um, that’s you, New Mexicans) which represents the Southern portion of the U.S. that starts in Virginia, encompasses the Deep South, the Southwest and ends in the far West (California and Nevada).
In the media world, The Wall Street Journal will charge $17.99 a month subscription rate for owners of the soon-to-be-released Apple’s iPad to get the paper’s content, AFP reports.
Speaking of the iPad, the geeks over at ReadWriteWeb have an interesting post on why you’d want to “jailbreak” an iPad. For a definition of “jailbreak” and the reason for their question, read RWW’s post.
