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.
One little-noticed but important vote tonight was the defeat by Otero County residents of a tax increase to help fund Spaceport America.
With all votes counted, the proposed 1/4 percent tax increase was defeated with 8,179 votes, or 47.7 percent, for the tax, and 8,954 votes, or 52.3 percent, against it.
What does it mean? It’s not immediately clear. The tax wasn’t critical to the spaceport project. The state has already secured most of the funding for the project from the Legislature and the Doña Ana County tax that was approved last year. In addition, voters in Sierra County approved a tax increase earlier this year.
But the tax was to have raised some $2.3 million of the estimated $200 million cost of the spaceport and, more importantly, state officials hoped Otero would become the third in a tri-county effort to build and support the spaceport.
