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.
The New Mexico Department of Workforce Solutions will provide six weeks less of unemployment benefits, up to 93 weeks, after June 12 because of the state’s declining unemployment rate.
The state had provided 99 weeks of benefits since February thanks to federal assistance that kicked in when the state’s three-month unemployment rate was above 8.5 percent — unemployment was at 7.6 percent as of April 2011.
Nationally, unemployment was at 9.1 percent as of May 2011, and only 54,000 jobs were added last month, down from three months of gains over 220,000.
