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.
State Senator Kent Cravens‘ 21-year-old daughter was arrested for DWI Sunday morning after she smashed her 2007 Mini Cooper into a median and then was found to have a blood-alcohol level of .23 (read: really drunk). As T.J. Wilham reports in this morning’s Journal, Sen. Cravens was elected to the Senate on an anti-DWI platform after his sister-in-law and three nieces were killed by drunk driver Gordon House in a tragic 1992 accident.
Governor Richardson has announced a press conference this afternoon, at which he is expected to announce major changes to the Drunkbusters DWI program, as well as the appointment of a new senior advisor on women’s issues. We’ll have more on that later today.
The New Mexico Business Weekly reported yesterday afternoon that 30 local businesses have joined forces with the DWI Resource Center and the City of Albuquerque to help combat drunk driving. Many of the businesses are located near the city’s three most crash-prone intersections (Louisiana and Central, Zuni and Central, Menaul and Fourth Street) say they plan to help by implementing drug- and alcohol-free workplace programs, offering education and supporting other groups’ campaigns.
The AP is reporting that a wolf spotted on Ted Turner’s Vermejo Park Ranch does not resemble the Mexican gray wolves (a subspecies of gray wolf) that have been reintroduced to New Mexico. Biologists from several organizations have seen the wolf, or pictures of it, and say they can’t quite figure out what it is, but it might be a gray wolf that migrated from the Northern Rockies, where the larger wolves have been so successful that they’ve been removed from the Endangered Species list. Biologists are trying to trap the wolf so they can test its DNA and attach a radio collar to track its movements.
