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.
Sure, control of New Mexico’s governorship is at stake in this year’s general election. But perhaps more important here and across the nation is that whichever party — Democrats or Republicans — wins control of the Legislature in most states controls redistricting, that once-a-decade redrawing of state and congressional legislative lines.
Sounds obscure and boring, but it’s important enough to get our own governor to try to rally Democrats, reports Stateline.org. “If we don’t shut down the GOP at the ballot box and stop them from redistricting themselves back into power, all our reforms will be dead in the water,” outgoing New Mexican Governor Bill Richardson said in a recent fundraiser letter for the Democratic Governors Association, the news service reported today.
Meanwhile in Washington, the Obama administration announced plans to open offshore areas to oil drilling, according to the New York Times.
Think you might be happier if you talked over the meaning of life more often than you do? One scientist believes that could be the case after a preliminary study, reports the New York Times. I, for one, am a believer.
Jaime Escalante, the teacher who inspired the movie “Stand and Deliver,” died yesterday, reports the Los Angeles Times. Escalante defied expectations and odds in the 1980s by demonstrating that low-income kids from LA could overcome low expectations and all sorts of hurdles to ace a standardized calculus test.
