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 Obama administration-elect has launched a one-stop Web site, www.change.gov, for information about its plans for the next 75 days and the four years that follow.
Got a question about the energy platform or foreign policy? It’s there. Want to apply for a job? Forms are available. Feel like watching Obama’s Election Day victory speech in Grant Park? Just click the button.
And of course there’s the touchstone that Obama has returned to throughout his long campaign — that the effort wasn’t about him but rather about us. The site invites one and all to tell their own stories from the campaign and Election Day.
In case you were out of touch during the last 18 or 20 months, there are biographies of Obama and Vice President-elect Joe Biden, and a link to their quickly growing transition team. As the administration comes together, the details will be posted.
The site seems like a good first step toward the open and transparent government Obama has promised, as well as a nod to the role the Internet played in getting him to where he is today.
