The New Mexico Independent

Top Stories

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

Mesa Verde 80
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

jobs-80
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.

Posts Tagged Federal Stimulus funds

New Mexico Medicaid squeeze may be ‘much more drastic’

By | 08.25.09 | 12:01 am

Two weeks ago New Mexico Human Services Secretary Pam Hyde delivered a sobering 27-page Power Point presentation to state lawmakers about a huge shortfall facing the state’s Medicaid program.

Solar energy, green jobs are big winners in 2009 legislative session

By | 03.25.09 | 12:01 am

The 2009 legislative session may be remembered by many as the one when the money stopped flowing and painful budget decisions had to be made. But advocates say this is actually the year when state government got on board the renewable energy bandwagon. Up till now, programs to boost solar energy installations were “woefully missing in New Mexico.”