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.
Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, both Democrats from New Mexico, will ask BP executives about the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico from one of BP’s oil drilling rigs. The oil spill is threatening the Louisiana coast.
“The main thrust of our hearing is going to be to try to understand the cause of this accident, and the steps that need to be taken so that similar actions don’t occur,” Bingaman told the Albuquerque Journal.
Bingaman is the chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
In a separate hearing on Tuesday, the Environment and Public Works Committee will also question BP executives about the oil spill. Udall sits on the Environment and Public Works Committee.
