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.
New Mexico’s Sen. Jeff Bingaman is key to the health care bill before the Senate Finance Committee, according to Roll Call. This morning the Albuquerque Journal’s Michael Coleman gives us a synopsis of the Roll Call story in which the…
More New Mexicans prefer spending cuts to tax increases to balance the state’s nearly $5.5 billion budget, according to the results of an Albuquerque Journal poll released today. But some advocates say they’d rather see the repeal of tax cuts than cuts to Medicaid. One in four New Mexicans gets health coverage in whole or part through some form of public assistance.
New Mexico’s U.S. Senators Jeff Bingaman and Tom Udall, both Democrats, have high approval ratings in the latest Albuquerque Journal poll. Bingaman has an approval rating of 61 percent and a disapproval rating of 21 percent, while Udall has…
While national polling shows a majority of Americans prefer the public option, a poll conducted by Research and Polling Inc. for the Albuquerque Journal found that a plurality of registered voters in New Mexico oppose the public option.…
Is it cool for a state lawmaker to spend political campaign funds on a parking ticket?
What’s your reaction to a state lawmaker paying a $77 tab for wine and cheese at an airport–with campaign cash?
Those are questions raised…
“Very possibly” answers The Albuquerque Journal in a story today.
Reporter Andrea Schoellkopf writes that “Albuquerque Public Schools could face immediate cuts of $25 million to $30 million in its $668.5 million budget if the state orders budget cuts…
On health care reform, the bad actors seem to get the most attention from the media. In particular, it’s the screamers who don’t want to debate, but instead disrupt, that make the headlines. And that’s not always right.
Let’s hear it for ABQ Journal Watch! The new blog from two former Albuquerque Journal reporters is bound to serve the public interest. I hope, though, they haven’t underestimated the task.
Both the Albuquerque Journal and the Associated Press are reporting that Marc Correra shared in $22 million in third-party marketer fees, a much larger total than the $16 million previously reported.
“The spirit of liberty,” said Judge Learned Hand (1872 – 1961), “is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women.” What put me in mind of his wisdom is the instant feedback afforded by Web publications, including the New Mexico Independent.
The first step is to admit you have a problem.
“We have deficit spending that we’ve been doing for a long time, and we’ve become fairly addicted to it,” said Bob Wessely.
This is how the Albuquerque Journal’s John Fleck…
Federal officials announced that drought conditions are spreading across New Mexico, according to the Albuquerque Journal’s science/water/global warming writer John Fleck.
He just posted an update using the State Drought Monitor,. which is part of the U.S. Drought Monitor.
Just when I was thinking that we’d seen the worst of the economic crisis — a notion first planted in my noggin by a couple of friends and then reinforced by this recent CNN poll — I learned that…
Local media are attempting to bridge the gap from the old, dead-tree newspaper model to the newer online model. But journalists and other experts are not optimistic about the economic sustainability of such ventures or even of their ability to match the scope of what traditional newspapers have been able to cover in the past.
The New York Times has an interesting article on the plight of newspapers. And they ask the question — when will a major city in the United States become a no-newspaper town?
Albuquerque became a one-newspaper town a little…
Smart move or much ado about nothing? You decide.
NMI has learned that Albuquerque Journal Managing Editor Karen Moses will be moving to the Albuquerque Publishing Company’s (APC) marketing department for three to six months. There she will serve…
Big sweetie sugar pie Joe Monahan made nice-nice with NMI this morning, so now we love him and he is back on the birthday party list. In a post on his site this morning, Joe clarified what he…
The E.W Scripps Company, which owns the Rocky Mountain News, said on Dec. 4 that it was putting the paper for up sale and would close it if no buyer emerged by mid-January. Anyone else feeling deja vu?
Last week, in a two-page internal memo announcing cuts and newsroom layoffs, Albuquerque Journal Editor Kent Walz explained the many painful decisions he’s had to make, then closed with this memorable line: “And despite the challenges, our goal is for…
The dots continue to be connected on Bill Richardson’s withdrawal from his nomination to be commerce secretary. This morning Michael Coleman and Dan Boyd at the Albuquerque Journal confirm what we had all heard: that the Senate —…
