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.
New Mexico’s unemployment rate remained at 8.2 percent in June and July, above last year’s average, but still below the national rate of 9.5 percent, the New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions announced today. Still, the situation in New Mexico is improving, according to the Department of Workforce Solutions. That’s because job losses are slowing and the industries that are adding jobs are adding them faster than before. The state has seen 5,000 jobs added in education and health care this year. Leisure and hospitality industry jobs increased, too. Although the state lost more than 2,000 construction jobs over the past year, we lost 10,200 of those jobs during the preceeding 12 months.
