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.
Northern New Mexico College in Española will host a panel on healthy eating and obesity, and a free screening of the documentary Food Inc., starting at 1:30 p.m. Saturday.
Local farmers and other speakers will hold a panel discussion on how the region can work toward a “healthy, green, fair local food system.”
Rio Arriba County was ranked last out of 32 New Mexico counties analyzed in a 2010 analysis of health outcomes and indicators sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Only 7 percent of Rio Arribans have access to healthy food, compared to 24 percent of New Mexicans in other counties, the study found.
“We’re trying to help growers to market their food, to make nutritious food — and information about nutritious food — more readily available in Rio Arriba County,” said Rio Arriba County Health and Human Services Director Lauren Reichelt. “We need for diabetes to become less of a burden on the County.”
The Rio Arriba County Community Health Council, the Greater Española Community Development Corporation and Ingredients for Change Campaign sponsored the meeting.
