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The New Mexico Independent going forward

By | 11.16.11

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…

EIB hears more anti-cap-and-trade testimony

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By | 11.10.11

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…

New Mexico’s largest university low in popularity

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By | 11.10.11

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.

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Get ready for challengers, educators’ union warns state lawmakers

By | 10.30.09 | 11:55 am

New Mexico state lawmakers struggled to pass a mid-year state budget fix last week, but in a possible sign of how difficult things may become politically, at least one public employee union is already throwing out a seldom-used threat in New Mexico: Democratic lawmakers, we’ll work to unseat you if you cut education.

More groups say repeal tax cuts, but guv stands firm

By | 09.03.09 | 10:13 am

Kate Nash of the Santa Fe New Mexican gives us a story today about another group — this time the American Federation of Teachers New Mexico — calling for a repeal of the 2003 income tax cuts…

N.M. educators hope to pressure lawmakers

By | 07.02.09 | 12:01 am

Members of the American Federation of Teachers New Mexico are orchestrating a statewide petition drive in hopes of pressuring state lawmakers to overturn a measure that has tens of thousands of public employees paying more into their pensions.