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.
Some Albuquerque Public Schools teachers fear the district plans to increase class sizes claiming that their classrooms are already so packed that they violate fire codes daily, reports KOB-TV.
The Rio Grande Sun reports the Española City Council approved an additional $360,000 budget cut for 2011 after the finance department realized insurance costs for employees had raised the basic budget by $500,000. The new cuts will leave three police positions vacant and make it possible to cut services from the senior center, library, parks and recreation.
The company that plans to build a wind farm on Bernal Mesa in San Miguel County said the proposed three-mile setback from homes would kill the project and is a far greater distance than the standard setback for wind turbines, reports The Las Vegas Optic.
The Farmington Daily Times reports during an emergency meeting Thursday city councilors approved an ordinance to maintain residents’ eligibility for federal flood insurance coverage.
KRQE-TV reports the State of New Mexico supplied state employees with 39,000 bottles of water in the 2009 fiscal year, which cost approximately $117,000.
