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.
Nearly three-quarters of Americans have returned their Census forms, The U.S. Census Bureau announced today. The 72 percent mail return rate is equal to the rate of 2000. But only 63 percent of New Mexicans have returned their forms, less than the 65 percent who did so in 2000.
“This is a significant achievement; the nation has stepped up to the challenge of participating in this once-a-decade civic event,” said Census Bureau Director Robert Groves, of the national return rate, in a statement. “We knew the job would be more difficult in 2010 than in 2000, yet the nation responded tremendously.”
Only six of New Mexico’s 33 counties and one of the state’s ten-largest municipalities, Santa Fe, have equaled the 2000-level of mail-return rates.
Midwestern states lead the pack when it comes to mail return rates. Wisconsin has an 81-percent participation rate, followed by Wisconsin (80 percent), Iowa (78 percent) and Indiana (78 percent).
The Census Bureau says they will now begin sending out 635,000 temporary census takers to retrieve information from those who did not return their census forms or were not able to receive census forms; census forms are not sent to post office boxes.
Los Alamos county leads all counties with an 82 percent mail-return rate, slightly below its 2000 mail-return rate of 85 percent. As for the largest municipalities in the state, both Albuquerque and Rio Rancho have mail-return rates of 71 percent.
