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.
Gov. Bill Richardson has slated more than $1 million in federal stimulus dollars to a land grant council and six acequia (community irrigation ditch) associations in Mora, Rio Arriba, Santa Fe and Taos counties.
The acequias will receive a total of $823,500 to perform dam and structural repairs and the New Mexico Land Grant Council will receive another $200,000 to help land grant associations with technical support such as mapping and legal research, according to Richardson’s office.
“Acequias and land grants are the very heart of New Mexico’s agricultural traditions,” Richardson said. “These projects are shovel ready, and will create jobs.”
Richardson did not specify how many jobs would be created.
“This funding will help rehabilitate their ditches, increase water use efficiency and help keep them viable,” said State Engineer John D’Antonio.
