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.
Congress has passed a bill that would name the Stewart Lee Udall Department of the Interior Building in Washington, D.C. and President Obama is expected to sign it.
Stewart Udall, served as a United States Representative from Arizona before serving as Secretary of the Interior under John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson. Udall was the father of current U.S. Senator Tom Udall; He died in Santa Fe earlier this year.
“Stewart Udall was among our nation’s the most effective interior secretaries. He was an outstanding public servant and a lifelong advocate for our country’s public lands and waters. His legacy will live on in the landmark environmental laws he helped develop. So I am pleased that the building where he once proudly worked will bear his name,” said Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., who chairs the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee.
New Mexico’s delegation unanimously supported the bill.
