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 Albuquerque Journal’s T.J. Wilham has an eye-opening story about the price New Mexicans are paying for talking (or texting) on their cell phones while driving.
The Associated Press reports today on a recent study that looked into pollution in the Four Corners area. According to the study, a reduction in coal-fired power plants and oil and gas operations would — surprise, surprise — lower…
If you’re looking for a provocative and political movie that will give you plenty of food for thought, Outrage is the flick for you. If you’re in Albuquerque, the Guild Cinema has a three-day showing beginning today.
Is it time for Arthur Alpert to apologize to the Albuquerque Journal?
Maybe. Maybe not.
It’s really just a rhetorical question, but as many NMI readers know, Alpert has been very critical of the coverage the state’s largest newspaper…
Here’s a slightly irritating story: Albuquerque’s Georgia O’Keeffe Elementary School, opened in 1988, has come under written attack from the painter’s museum in Santa Fe for possible copyright infringement — even though the museum’s acquisition of the artist’s name…
In the new edition of the Santa Fe Reporter that came out today, staff writer Dave Maass has an interesting story about local gang members on MySpace.
It appears that said gang members have little fear about publicizing assorted claims…
University of New Mexico Law Professor Laura Gomez had a provocative commentary published in this past weekend’s edition of USA Today. Her commentary ran with this headline: “Another proud affirmative action baby.”
In Sunday’s Albuquerque Journal, pollster Brian Sanderoff neatly summed up the yin-yang challenge facing Mayor Martin Chavez as he seeks an unprecedented third consecutive term as mayor, his fourth term overall. “As the years pass on incumbency, you make a lot of friends,” Sanderoff said, “and a lot of enemies.”
On the heels of nabbing a new executive director — the sitting state historian, Estevan Rael-Gálvez — the National Hispanic Cultural Center has also nabbed a $50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Arts.
The Albuquerque Journal’s Dan Boyd has a provocative story in today’s newspaper about New Mexico’s drunk driving laws in light of yet another fatal head-on collision. While there have been numerous legislative efforts in recent years to toughen the…
After the Washington Independent’s David Weigel reported on the waning Tea Party movement late last week, both the Carlsbad Current-Argus and the Alamogordo Daily News follow up on local tea partiers over the Independence Day holiday.
Dr. Estevan Rael-Gálvez won’t officially move into his new Barelas office as the next executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center (NHCC) until July 25.
But in an interview for this past weekend’s New Mexico In Focus, Rael-Gálvez gave a…
Ray Rivera is an Albuquerque native who recently turned 30. Following two years on Barack Obama’s grueling but ultimately triumphant presidential campaign, Rivera promptly moved to Washington, D.C., and is now arguably New Mexico’s highest ranking presidential appointee.
New Mexico most clogged traffic intersection may finally be getting a much-needed makeover. The Albuquerque Journal’s Lloyd Jojola reports that funding for the massive $350 million I-25/Paseo del Norte interchange may finally be coming together from a variety of local,…
The New Mexico Business Weekly reports today on a surprising health care beat development: that Wal-Mart backs President Obama’s proposed health insurance mandate requiring large employers to offer health insurance for employees.
After a history of offering what many…
I’ve been remiss not to post the video below earlier.
Entitled “Miss Gay Latino,” it was an entry from me and journalist/videographer Kate Nash in last month’s Santa Fe Three Minute Film Festival. And it won the festival’s prize…
This week’s big education news (apart from charter schools’ latest report card) revealed maybe the biggest, most persistent problem we face: New Mexico’s downright appalling high school graduation rate.
In a surprising twist (to me anyway), the U.S. Justice Department is asking a federal judge to dismiss a lawsuit filed by the descendants of legendary Chiricahua Apache leader Goyathlay (a.k.a. Geronimo) aimed at recovering his allegedly stolen remains.
The lawsuit claims…
The city’s Rio Grande Zoo will soon have two new poster boys. But the more than four year lapse between acquisition of two enormous saltwater crocodiles and the temporary public viewing set to begin next month raises questions.
On the clean (dirty?) water beat, more than you might expect may be lurking in the rolling waters of the Rio Grande. KOAT TV is reporting that acetaminophen, anti-seizure medication, tranquilizers, insect repellent, sunscreen ingredients and caffeine have been found…
