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The New Mexico Independent going forward

By | 11.16.11

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…

EIB hears more anti-cap-and-trade testimony

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By | 11.10.11

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…

New Mexico’s largest university low in popularity

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By | 11.10.11

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.

Prairie dogs dig up bones at Fairview Cemetery, get gassed

By | 06.18.10 | 8:55 am

This story in today’s Santa Fe New Mexican is killing me. First, a Santa Fe cemetery tries to do the right thing by no longer maintaining a lush lawn. But then prairie dogs move in—and start digging up human bones!

So then the cemetery pays $10,000 to try to remove them, but it doesn’t work, so now it’s killing them with poison gas.

“Instead of paying $100 per prairie dog to remove them, I can gas them for $1.80,” the cemetery association president said.

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