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.
This fall New Mexico will start collecting more data to help solve a serious problem: no one knows exactly how many of the state’s half a million children are obese. While quick to praise the state’s plan this week, local officials, advocates and parents said this week that New Mexico has a long way to go to fully address the problem.
First Lady Michelle Obama launch her campaign against child obesity, Let’s Move, Tuesday morning. The program aims to improve kids’ health by improving school lunches, increasing the number of farmers markets in the country and revamping the tried and true food pyramid. It also focuses on physical activity by partnering with professional athletes to encourage at least an hour of play away from TV’s computers and video games that take up an average of 7.5 hours of kids’ days. More …
Banning fast-food commercials on kids’ TV shows would reduce childhood obesity by 18 percent says a study published this month in the University of Chicago’s Journal of Law & Economics. According to the study, 23 percent of the…
