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.
On the economics beat, KOB TV’s Jeff Maher has an eyebrow raising story on the hefty subsidy the state is currently paying to the Mexican airline Aeromexico.
Under the deal struck back in February when the direct service between…
Way back in 1949, the Federal Communications Commission created something called the Fairness Doctrine.
According to a story in today’s Santa Fe New Mexican, ex-President Bill Clinton has commissioned three Santa Fe folk artists to craft the prizes for the Clinton Global Citizen Awards.
Not only does folk art broaden cultural representation, these…
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, New Mexico is 44.4 percent Latino — a higher percentage than any other state. That’s clearly one reason the first Latino to be nominated to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court is big…
So there’s at least one more connection to be found between Sonia Sotomayor and New Mexico, albeit a bit indirect.
That is, U.S. Supreme Court nominee Sotomayor’s family roots in Puerto Rico — and the island’s 19th century acquisition by the…
It seems like Barack Obama’s pick to be the next justice of the U.S. Supreme Court was always the smartest kid in the class. Sonia Sotomayor is the classic overachiever. And while at first glance, the story of the New Yorican judge poised to make history as the nation’s first Latino on the nation’s high court might seem far removed from New Mexico, it isn’t.
The Gallup Independent highlights the second article in a three-part series reporting on “deadly water” and the Navajo Nation in Black Falls, Arizona. This segment focuses on the water deemed undrinkable but that many in the area are forced…
As the spotlight focuses on the trailblazing Judge Sonia Sotomayor, Latina lawyers around New Mexico offer diverse reactions to the first-ever Latino nominee to the U.S. Supreme Court — as well as differing opinions about how biography matters.
The Ruidoso News is tracking federal stimulus funds — $27.5M on the way from D.C. for water projects. This money will specifically help reconstruct and expand the wastewater treatment plant in Ruidoso.
The New Mexico Business Weekly is reporting on IBM’s $5M set aside for “smart” loans. Most of these funds will lend money or credit lines to customers and health-care providers developing “smart technology.”
For months and months, we’ve heard where federal stimulus funds are going. KOB-TV is reporting that we’re about to see the start of these funds in action. The projects expected to be seen first are those coming from the…
In an otherwise perfunctory news release sent out Thursday from the New Mexico Department of Veteran Services announcing a full slate of Memorial Day commemorations, I came across a rare flash of official annoyance.
According to the editor of PETroglyphs — “New Mexico’s independent, award-winning, animal newspaper focusing on community education for animal welfare” — the recently announced dog ban at Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument is “a shame… especially on a holiday weekend.”
One of New Mexico’s signature geological showplaces is no longer open to New Mexicans’ four-legged friends. Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, just outside Cochiti Pueblo, is implementing the new canine closure effective this Saturday.
NMI’s Gwyneth Doland will soon be presented with a highly coveted AltWeekly Award, the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies announced yesterday.
Specifically, Doland — a veteran alternative weekly journalist — will win an award for Devour: A Locavore’s Guide to Santa…
In the current issue of the Santa Fe Reporter on newsstands today, staff writer Dave Maass offers an interesting peak into the New Mexico Supreme Court. The occasion? Last Tuesday’s oral argument about the state’s recently repealed death penalty.
As President Obama narrows his search for a new associate justice for the U.S. Supreme Court, the Albuquerque Journal has a flattering profile of New Mexico’s top contender – chief judge of the U.S. District Court for the District…
The Albuquerque Journal’s Dan McKay reports that tonight’s City Council meeting could (again) feature a clash pitting Mayor Martin Chavez and the council over money matters — specifically, the city’s $475M proposed operating budget.
Immediately after President Obama wrapped up his town hall meeting on credit card reform last Thursday, I interviewed a random sample of attendees.
Gene Grant, co-host of New Mexico In Focus on KNME-TV, had a very interesting interview with Federal Communications Commissioner Jonathan Adelstein.
