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.
Nearly one in four Californians — 8.4 million or 24.3 percent — lacks health insurance and the rate of uninsured in many California counties is even larger than that statewide average according to a study reported on by the Los Angeles Times.
As of 2008, the latest figures available for New Mexico, 23 percent, or 450,000 of the state’s roughly 2 million residents, were without health insurance, according to a September 2009 announcement by the state’s Human Services Department.
In recent years New Mexico has held the dubious honor of coming in second only to Texas in the number of its residents who are uninsured. The uninsured rate in Texas according to 2008 figures was 24.9 percent.
But 2009 uninsured rate figures for New Mexico are expected next month thanks to the U.S. Census, HSD spokeswoman Betina Gonzales McCracken told The Independent on Tuesday. And the state’s uninsured rate could rise over the 23 percent rate recorded in 2008, she said.
Given the state of the economy and the growing unemployment in New Mexico through much of 2009 it’s difficult to envision a scenario in which McCracken isn’t right.
