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.
On the same day that Governor Susana Martinez’s administration went before members of the Legislature’s Economic and Rural Development Committee in Santa Fe to again propose merging the Tourism and Cultural Affairs agencies, state Tourism secretary Monique Jacobson was down…
After watching businesses in their neighboring states profit for years, businesspeople and officials along the Mexico-New Mexico border impressed it upon their beltway representatives that they, too, finally wanted to cash in on what has not been coming their way.…
The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its jobs report for July Friday morning, finding that 117,000 new jobs were created and the unemployment rate dropped very slightly from 9.2 percent to 9.1 percent. However, more people left the labor force than jobs were created.
This month’s job report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics is terrible news. Unemployment remains unchanged at 9.2 percent and 14.1 million people unemployed, and a mere 18,000 jobs were added this month. 39,000 government jobs were lost, and 14,000 of those were federal government jobs.
American Crossroads Grassroots Policy Strategies, a 501(c)(4) group conceived by former Senior Bush Advisor Karl Rove and former RNC chair Ed Gillespie, is running ads this week criticizing President Obama’s handling of the economy in New Mexico and other swing states.
According to a national poll by The Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, health care is still on the minds of the public, while news on jobs is still seen as bad despite some positive…
Governor Bill Richardson attended the National Governor’s Association annual meeting in Washington D.C. this weekend and while there, he had some advice for President Barack Obama. Finish health care, then move onto the economy, Richardson said, according to an
The economy in New Mexico fell apart in a way not seen since the 1940s according to a story in the New Mexico Business Weekly. Overall, the state lost 43,000 jobs in 2009; the mining, manufacturing and construction…
The Albuquerque metro area is one of six metro areas to have reached pre-recession levels of output according to a report by the Brookings Institute tracking the economic recession and recovery in metro areas. Albuquerque still, however, has not…
If you thought that coverage of the King of Pop’s death dominated the news landscape over the weekend, then you were right according to the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.
According to Pew, 93 percent of all…
Albuquerque lost 1,600 jobs in 2008, according to a study by bizjournals, the online media division of American City Business Journals, as reported by The New Mexico Business Weekly.
Time to wrangle up the end-of-the week blogs and put them out in today’s edition of the NMI blog roundup.
Democracy for New Mexico takes an extensive look at the reason why ethics legislation doesn’t make it past the Legislature.…
The state of New Mexico could get some significant help from the federal government in Barack Obama’s economic stimulus package, according to the Associated Press.
Barry Massey cites an analysis by Federal Funds Information for States, which says…
The total infusion of federal money to rescue our economy so far totals more than the annual gross domestic product of every national economy in the world except the United States, the European Union and China. According to the New…
Barack Obama’s recent rise in the presidential race numbers isn’t due to media persuasion –- as the increasing volume in blogosphere and email chatter would have us believe –- but rather is directly tied to Americans’ negative response to the economic crisis. That’s the opinion of one UNM political scientist who looks to numerous polls for confirmation.
What with the election hubbub, one might have overlooked a couple of disturbing developments this week related to two of the state’s newspapers.
The Santa Fe New Mexican on Tuesday offered voluntary buyouts to some employees in an effort to…
As if we didn’t already know, a new Albuquerque Journal poll is in to tell us that the economy is Numero Uno in the minds of voters four weeks out from the Nov. 4 election. And get this: The…
The pundits on PBS are saying that both candidates did a good job, but that neither was able to score a winning blow.
In a recent conversation, my dad summed up the current financial crisis better than I could have: We’re trying to figure out how to engineer a controlled crash landing instead of allowing an all-out nosedive into the ground. I believe he’s right. The situation is that serious.
