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 first candidate forum, sponsored by AFSCME Council 18, in the Albuquerque mayoral race comes early — on April 29th, the same day we find out who officially qualifies for the ballot. The state’s largest public employees union typically…
Several groups have sent a letter to Albuquerque’s Charter Review Task Force to protest a proposed amendment that they say would “limit the free speech of nonprofit organizations operating in Albuquerque.”
The one-page letter, which was made public Wednesday,…
“It’s not a matter of if. It’s a matter of when.” These are the words President-elect Barack Obama used in March 2007 about organized labor’s top priority for the next administration: the Employee Free Choice Act, which would make it much easier for workers to organize and gain first-time contracts with their employers.
