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.
Early childhood programs hit hard by cuts taking effect Thursday will avoid that budget pain thanks to $1 million in federal stimulus money, Gov. Bill Richardson announced Wednesday.
The federal dollars will replace hundreds of thousands of state dollars New Mexico state lawmakers cut from funding that pays for infant home visits in 22 New Mexico counties and for child care of homeless children in Albuquerque and Las Cruces.
“One thing that is clear, its not gray its black and white, Jesus was with the poor, and this is an attack on the poor,” said Allen Sanchez of the New Mexico Conference of Catholic Bishops, moments after…
At one of the most unique rallies at the Roundhouse during the session, 12,000 white tortillas were handed out by St. Joseph Community Health and other groups opposing a bill that would reimpose the gross receipts tax on certain…
“This is a tax on the poorest people of New Mexico,” Allen Sanchez, a lobbyist for the New Mexico Conference of Catholic Bishops, said Thursday. He’s referring to a bill that would reinstate the gross receipts tax on certain…
It’s been almost two months since domestic partnership legislation failed by an 8-vote margin in the New Mexico Senate. But since then, the New Mexico Independent has learned that a committee appointed by New Mexico’s Catholic archbishop has been charged with seeking out a potential compromise with backers of the original bill.
