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.
A Roswell businessman is proposing to build a private 145-mile water pipeline from Fort Sumner to Santa Fe, through which water can be leased from Fort Sumner. Ron Green says in the Santa Fe New Mexican article that as a market for delivering water has become feasible as the the value of water has risen. He also said that delivering the water to Santa Fe may slow down the escalating market for water rights in the middle Rio Grande region.
Election ’08 is almost over
Today is the final day before this historic election year draws to a close. Those of you who are registered to vote but didn’t go early, get ready for an onslaught of doorhangers, mail and phone calls today and tomorrow. Please be nice.
All the national polls show Obama in the lead, and here in New Mexico many are predicting a Democratic sweep of federal offices. We’ll see. None of it is stopping John McCain from mining for votes in southern New Mexico. He stops in Roswell today.
Will uranium mining in the west really lead to economic revitalization? Maybe, maybe not
The New Mexico Environmental Law Center released a study last week that says the estimates of thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in revenue from a “rebirth” of the uranium mining industry in western New Mexico are a “gross exaggeration” due to the “boom and bust cycles” of extractive industries. Instead, NMELC staff attorney Eric Jantz told the Associated Press that the economic driver in the region are the landscape, plus clean air and water, which are sustainable and have an inherent value.
