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 New Mexico Independent’s Trip Jennings won two second place awards in the annual statehouse reporting contest sponsored by the Association Capitol Reporters and Editors. The honor follows an awards banquet last month in which the Independent was given the First Amendment Award by the ACLU of New Mexico.
We are very excited to bring you our biggest and best-ever election day coverage this Nov. 2, including an extraordinary live blog in partnership with our colleagues at The Santa Fe New Mexican, which will launch at 9 a.m.…
Hooray! NMI is proud to report that we’ve been selected to receive the annual First Amendment Award, to be given by the American Civil Liberties Union of New Mexico (ACLU-NM) at its Bill of Rights Celebration in October.
ACLU-NM Executive Director…
Nearly two-thirds of respondents in a poll of users of local news websites—including The New Mexico Independent— say they are more satisfied with that site than with their local mainstream new source. The survey of 19 community news sites, conducted by…
The Independent’s Trip Jennings spoke with KUNM’s Sarah Gustavus Thursday about New Mexico’s two candidates for attorney general and their differing stances on giving driver’s licenses to undocumented immigrants. Jennings also talked about the governor’s race and both Susana Martinez…
If you’re at all interested in the race between Republican Tom Mullins and Democrat Rep. Ben Ray Lujan in New Mexico’s 3rd Congressional District, be sure to watch my interviews with both candidates tonight at 7 p.m. on KNME’s
NMI’s Trip Jennings sat down with Sarah Gustavus of KUNM this afternoon to talk about New Mexico’s decision to start publicly disclosing the number of hospital-acquired infections on a state website this fall. You can listen to the…
Thursday on the KUNM evening news, The Independent’s Bryant Furlow discussed the efforts of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico to raise rates on individual policy holders in the state. The state Supreme Court ruled this week…
“If someone says to you ‘I think my husband…is going to kill me,’ that is the single biggest predictor that it might happen,” Pam Wiseman, director of the New Mexico Coaltion Against Domestic Violence told me in an…
Journalist and filmmaker Chris Dudley will screen his film “Genetic Chile” on July 31 at The Kosmos in Albuquerque. The film examines genetically modified organisms, specifically New Mexico chile peppers. Dudly describes it as “a film…
A $160 million hole in the state budget looms like storm clouds on the horizon for Diane Denish and Susana Martinez, the two women running for governor of New Mexico. Both candidates want to cut capital outlay, but there’s been…
On Thursday, The Independent’s Bryant Furlow sat down with KUNM’s Sarah Gustavus to talk about his reporting on safety at oil and gas facilities in New Mexico. In case you missed the segment during “All Things Considered,” you…
Panelists with diverse experience and observations on immigration came together for a lively discussion on the issue Wednesday night at an Independent Forum hosted by The Independent, KUNM and KNME.
The Independent’s Trip Jennings moderated a panel of experts, while…
The New Mexico Independent’s fifth weekly podcast includes a discussion of the state budget, New Mexico’s new plan to track childhood obesity rates and the latest news on the Arizona immigration law.
New Mexico Independent senior reporter Trip Jennings joined…
In case you missed it, I was on the KUNM evening news last night talking about our story on the record-high fine levied against PNM for a 2008 gas leak. You can listen to the interview here.
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Aetna has become the second health insurance company in California since April to scrap planned rate hikes, following revelations last week that “math errors” in the company’s application exaggerated justification for the proposed rate increase.
The company had sought a…
Join The Independent tomorrow as we live blog from an Albuquerque town hall on the federal budget. Albuquerque will be one of 19 locations for the AmericaSpeaks “Our Budget, Our Economy” town hall meeting.
Glenn Walp, a former employee at Los Alamos National Laboratory, has written a book (“Implosion at Los Alamos“) about his experiences investigating security lapses there in the wake of 9/11. The lab is extremely vulnerable to security…
Acting state insurance superintendent Johnny Montoya has suspended a controversial April 26 Blue Cross and Blue Shield of New Mexico health insurance premium rate increase settlement and ordered an Aug. 25 public hearing to review evidence in the case. But his order allows Blue Cross Blue Shield NM to continue to charge the higher rates until the August hearing.
The New Mexico Independent’s fifth weekly podcast includes a discussion of the state budget, New Mexico’s new plan to track childhood obesity rates and the latest news on the Arizona immigration law.