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.
More than three-quarters of children in New Mexico (78.6 percent) live below 200 percent of the poverty level, and the state has the 7th highest percentage of uninsured children, according to a new report (Uninsured Children: Who Are They and Where Do They Live?) from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. That’s despite a 20-year trend in increasing rates of health care coverage for kids.
Additional figures show New Mexico has 5th highest percentage of uninsured children ages 6 to 12. Across the state, 36 percent of Native American children, 14 percent of Hispanic children 4.6 percent of white children lack health insurance.
For more information on New Mexico, go to pages 130-132 in the report.
