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 U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) took no action against former Farmington District manager Steve Henke after the U.S. Interior Department’s inspector general found Henke had sought and accepted unreported gifts and donations from oil companies…
New Mexico Oil and Gas Association President Steve Henke accepted gifts from an oil company and abused government travel funds when he was a U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) official responsible for regulating oil and gas production…
One of New Mexico’s signature geological showplaces is no longer open to New Mexicans’ four-legged friends. Kasha-Katuwe Tent Rocks National Monument, just outside Cochiti Pueblo, is implementing the new canine closure effective this Saturday.
Chalk up another win against the feds today. The state of New Mexico and a coalition of environmental groups have won their effort to stop oil and gas drilling on Otero Mesa in southern New Mexico.
The oil company Devon is contributing $50,000 and the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is contributing matching funds to oil-field reclamation efforts in Eddy County.
The company and the BLM will work with the Carlsbad Soil and Water…
