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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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New Mexico man arrested in white powder mailings

By | 02.03.09 | 1:18 pm

A man from New Mexico was arrested today by federal authorities in connection to the suspicious letters with white powder that were sent to over 60 institutions across the world, including in New Mexico.

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Learning to respond overwhelmingly

By | 12.13.08 | 7:47 am

Take a mysterious white powder. Add an envelope. Then deliver it to the office of the New Mexico governor. Suddenly you have a full-blown incident on your hands, as we saw Thursday in Santa Fe when the state Capitol was evacuated and more than a dozen people were quarantined after potential exposure to the substance.

State won’t know for two days what substance is

By | 12.11.08 | 6:53 pm

It will take two days to know definitively whether the white, powdery substance the governor’s office received in an envelope Thursday is dangerous or not, a spokesman for the state Department of Public Safety said Tuesday.

Meanwhile, the more than…

Governor’s office evacuated; white powder delivered in envelope

By | 12.11.08 | 4:17 pm

The Governor’s Office and the Lt. Governor’s Office were evacuated this afternoon after it was discovered that an envelope delivered to the office contained an unidentified white substance. According to a press release:

State Police dispatched its Emergency Response Team