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.
A Christian student group called “Relentless in Roswell” says officials at Goddard and Roswell high schools in that southeastern New Mexico city stopped them from distributing two-inch rubber fetus dolls earlier this year, the Albuquerque Journal reports.
School officials reported that some found the dolls, which came with a Bible verse, offensive; they were used to promote abstinence, according to the paper. Now the officials’ decision to stop the students from passing out the rubber fetuses has landed the schools in federal court in Albuquerque in what could become a test of how far schools can go in regulating speech, writes Journal reporter Scott Sandlin.
It’s a fascinating issue, for sure. Stay tuned. Maybe this situation will go all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
