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.
Ella, a new emergency contraceptive that’s more effective than the existing drug, Plan B, was endorsed today by a Food and Drug Administration’s advisory panel. That move clears the way for approval by the agency, which, as The New York Times notes, usually follows the advice of such panels.
As a side note, I was struck by a beautifully written sentence in the Times’ story today:
The committee spent the day in a cold discussion of the sobering realities that follow moments of passion, a discussion punctuated by the clacking of knitting needles from Dr. Paula Hilliard, a committee member and professor of gynecologic specialties at Stanford University School of medicine.
Journalism students, take note: Someday you could be paid to write sentences like that.
