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.
In a story that ran in Sunday’s edition, the New Mexico Wildlife Federation told Journal reporter Deborah Baker that the state’s system of doling out licenses to hunt certain species of wild game is unfair. The organization and in-state hunters are complaining that too many licenses, or tags as they’re called, are given to private landowners who then can turn around and sell them for as much as $1,500 each.
The federation said that no other state in the mountain West “is as generous as New Mexico to private landowners,” according to the Journal.
The state also distributes a certain number of tags to out-of-state hunters. Coupled with the state’s policy of giving a certain number to private landowners, the tags that go to out-of-state hunters leaves too many locals without the chance to go hunting for the species.
