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.
While some consumer groups are shaking their heads at yesterday’s Federal Communications Commission decision to encourage but not force wireless companies to be more forthright with extra usage fees, the senator who tried to reign in the industry isn’t crying defeat.
Officials in the Martinez administration announced Tuesday that revenue for the state government will be lower than previously estimated.
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PILT would not be subject to the normal appropriations process, but would be reduced by five percent each year for the next five years, with the hope that it will eventually be phased out.
In three weeks, the Wall Street protest movement hopes to implement a November 5th walkout, the effects of which could have a far greater impact than months of sit-ins and protests. Being billed as Bank Transfer Day, and as of…
The New Mexico pension fund will continue to invest in billionaire hedge fund manager John Paulson for now, the fund’s chief investment officer said Wednesday.
The Obama administration today selected a Northern New Mexico water reclamation project as one of a handful of infrastructure public works endeavors to undergo an expedited permit process in the hopes it will lead to faster job growth.
Rep. Ben Luján (D-N.M.) and other Democratic members of the New Mexico congressional delegation are asking the Obama administration to open a regional United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) in central New Mexico.
Yesterday, the Obama administration fast-tracked seven transmission projects across 12 states — including one in New Mexico — that will generate thousands of construction jobs and increase electric output in the Southwest and Rocky states.
Gov. Susana Martinez (R) signed a law Wednesday tightening requirements for firms who receive preference in receiving government contracts, closing a “loophole” that allowed out-of-state firms to take advantage of the existing system.
According to a new study, migration from northern states to the Sun Belt has slowed in the past few years, putting a break on the population growth that has driven the region’s relatively strong economic performance.
Over 800,000 New Mexicans will face price hikes in their electric bills after a Colorado-based company and its 44 local co-ops voted 43-1 to raise the rates by 4.5 percent.
Yesterday, the New Mexican reported on the anniversary of Dollars4Schools.org, a website that allows teachers to raise money for applied learning activities for their students.
The Sierra Club and the Natural Resource Defense Council are suing the state for issuing an air permit for a coal-burning power generation facility planned by the Wolverine Power Cooperative in Rogers City.
The same week that anti-abortion-rights advocates and Catholic colleges pushed the Obama administration to repeal a recent decision to include contraception in a list of fully-covered preventive health-care services, House Republicans unveiled a proposed spending plan for 2012 that…
Banking inconvenience is scaling to new heights in New Mexico and across the country as Bank of America and Wells Fargo plan to roll out separate monthly debit card usage fees. In New Mexico and in four other states, Wells…
The Occupy Wall Street protests that started in New York and have now spread to cities including Chicago, Boston and San Francisco (and coming soon to Texas), with more adopting “We are the 99%” as their unifying slogan. In a…
Latino children ages 17 and younger represent the highest number of children living poverty in the U.S., according to a Pew Hispanic Center report released Wednesday.
New Mexico has a stake in the increasingly heated debate over allowing a Canadian petroleum firm to build a pipeline across the Great Plains to the Gulf of Mexico: table water.
Three solar power plants that make up the 53.5 megawatt solar project overseen by SunEdison and Xcel Energy near Carlsbad were activated Thursday.
Later this morning, President Obama and U.S. Department of Education Secretary Arne Duncan are expected to announce a set of criteria for states to opt out of the federal No Child Left Behind (NCLB) law following a long period of…
