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 Rail Runner Express commuter train appears to be on schedule to make its historic first run from Albuquerque into downtown Santa Fe next month, and officials say they expect a bumper crop of riders. “We’re bracing ourselves for a huge ridership level,” said Lawrence Rael, executive director of the Mid-Region Council of Governments, which manages the train.
New Mexico is one of a handful of states with a commission that evaluates judges’ performance and then recommends to voters on which to retain. But while other states provide pages of data on each judge, New Mexico voters get only a single paragraph, and sometimes “no opinion.”
After a spate of embarrassing arrests that have turned into public relations nightmares, Albuquerque Police Chief Ray Schultz has ordered his officers to think twice before citing individuals with the broad and vague charge…
Former New Mexico Attorney General Patricia Madrid may be in the running for secretary of interior, but she has some stiff competition for the post. Democratic Arizona Rep. Raul Grijalva is also cited in news reports, and he…
The economic downturn may do what the state cannot — slow the headlong rush for brackish water deep below the desert west of Albuquerque. It will take tens of millions of dollars to turn any of the three reported supplies of brine into water fit for human consumption, and neither private nor public sources of money appear to be overflowing these days.
A New Mexico State University agriculture professor has some surprising news on the water front: Drip irrigation is not the water-saver it’s cracked up to be.
The study, co-authored by NMSU water resource economist Frank Ward and Manuel Pulido-Velazquez of…
Congressional Democrats have ousted longtime Michigan Rep. John Dingell as chairman of the influential House Energy and Commerce Committee and replaced him with the more progressive Rep. Henry Waxman of California.
The state’s economic picture is coming into focus and it’s a mix of good and bad. State Senate President Pro Tem Tim Jennings tells The Associate Press today that lower oil and gas revenue could create a
As Congress convenes to discuss the proposed $25 billion bailout for the Big Three automakers — and as news sinks in that the federal government’s earlier financial aid plans haven’t worked out exactly as advertised — it’s helpful to…
Tucked in among billions of U.S. taxpayer dollars to bail out Wall Street are a few crumbs for the people — not for the folks who took out risky mortgages or who thought someone else would pay off their credit card bills, but for that tiny slice of America that bicycles to work.
Gasoline prices are finally catching up with the falling price of crude oil, with at least one station in Albuquerque today selling the precious liquid for a mere $1.98 a gallon.
It was just five weeks ago that the…
Don’t expect action on a federal plan to tackle greenhouse-gas emissions for at least a year, says Sen. Jeff Bingaman, the Silver City Democrat who chairs the Senate Energy Committee.
His statement, issued at a climate conference in Washington, D.C.,…
The future of coal-fired electricity is called into question as the nation ponders ways of reining in carbon emissions, but the major power provider in rural New Mexico says coal is here to stay.
In a competition perhaps most eagerly awaited by linguists, editors and other word wonks, the New Oxford American Dictionary’s word of the year is one for the transitory masses: “hypermiling.”
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It’s Veterans Day, and a good time to honor those who have given so much for the nation, but the economy remains the big news of the day. The city of Albuquerque is facing a substantial budget deficit that could…
Lying in my sleeping bag in New Mexico State Parks’ breathtakingly beautiful Cottonwood Campground last Friday night, I could hear the San Juan River gently murmuring a few hundred feet away, dry cottonwood leaves rustling in the breeze, a guy strumming his guitar a few campsites down — and in the background a noise I couldn’t put my finger on.
When the Defenders of Wildlife Action Fund set up camp in New Mexico last spring, its goal was to help elect U.S. Senate candidate Tom Udall as part of a wider effort by environmental groups to pack the Senate with green-leaning members. It did that and more, playing a role in Udall’s victory as well as those of U.S. House candidates Martin Heinrich and Harry Teague.
When Bruce Thompson, director of the state Game and Fish Department, illegally shot a deer on private land last year, it appears he may have had collateral damage — himself.
Gov. Bill Richardson announced in a news release today that…
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.
Until Tuesday night, never has any party held all five of New Mexico’s seats in Congress. But there’s a flip side to that clean sweep. Three freshmen in the U.S. House and another in the Senate are starting from scratch on the long road toward congressional seniority, with all its perks and advantages for the congressmen and their constituents.
