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.
Governor Richardson today announced that he is using $2.8 million in federal stimulus money to purchase 12,142 acres of land known as the Ortiz Mountain Ranch to expand Cerrillos Hills State Park and create a wild horse sanctuary.
The property had recently been…
Funding for Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories helped New Mexico bring in more federal dollars per person than all but four other states, federal databases show for fiscal year 2009. Only Alaska, Hawaii, Maryland and Virgina received more money…
When the news came that Santa Fe’s public schools would get some of the federal stimulus bounty being handed out by a benevolent Democratic Congress and president, few suspected that some of that federal pork would turn rancid.
USA TODAY has examined the amount of money flowing to states early on by looking at the first contracts that release federal money to pay for state projects.
While New Mexico doesn’t get a specific mention in the text…
New Mexico’s public schools should get $500 million in federal stimulus aid, the Associated Press (AP) reports. The money is meant to help save education-related jobs and maintain programs for low-income students and students with disabilities.
Of the funds,…
A new state agency will oversee how New Mexico spends $1.8 billion in federal stimulus money, Gov. Bill Richardson announced earlier today. The temporary agency — the Office of Recovery and Reinvestment — will also aim to boost the state’s chances of winning additional federal grants.
