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.
Socorro will receive a $1.2 million federal stimulus loan and $3.29 million in federal grants to revamp its water system. Despite numerous New Mexico municipalities’ struggles to comply with federal and state drinking water quality standards, Socorro was the only New Mexico water system to receive U.S. Agriculture Department clean water stimulus funding.
Socorro groundwater has unusually high arsenic concentrations, as high as 40 parts per billion, or four times the federal maximum for drinking water. The City has been working with the state Environment Department to revamp its treatment system.
The offices of NM U.S. senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall and Rep. Harry Teague all issued press releases announcing the awards.
