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.
As part of its ongoing coverage of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, ProPublica reports today that oil companies have paid relatively little in fines to the Minerals Management Service, the agency that regulates offshore oil and gas drilling. In the past 12 years, the Minerals Management Service has collected only $20 million in penalties, with the largest fine being just over $800,000. How painful are those fines for oil companies? As ProPublica reports, BP has cleared $5.6 billion in profits in the past three months alone.
