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 Rocky Mountain News, Colorado’s oldest newspaper, will publish its last edition Friday and then shut down, leaving Denver a one-newspaper town, an officials of E.W. Scripps, the paper’s owner, announced Thursday at noon.
Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family gave $727,250 in cash and services to the anti-gay marriage Proposition 8 campaign in California, according to records released by the California secretary of state, including a $100,000 check in late October, just days before the evangelical media empire announced it planned to lay off nearly 20 percent of its employees.
Secretary of the Interior Ken Salazar wants the Justice Department to take another look into scandals at the Minerals Management Service, with an eye to further criminal prosecution and plans to undertake a “fundamental restructuring of the MMS royalty program,” which last year reaped $23.4 billion from oil and gas companies that drill on public land. Salazar, the former Democratic senator named recently to the Obama Cabinet, announced his plans for MMS Thursday afternoon after meeting with the agency’s employees in Lakewood, Colorado.
The blog that first predicted Barack Obama would move his acceptance speech to Invesco Field could earn another prognostication feather if rumors flying around Denver turn out to come true. DemConWatch followed up its Invesco coup with reasoned…
