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.
Citing a 2008 study of New Mexico’s film industry subsidies, Los Angeles Times business columnist Michael Hiltzik Friday questioned California’s own $100 million-a-year tax credits for Hollywood film productions, calling them “corporate welfare.”
The study showed that New Mexico saw…
The bill to repeal the state’s film credits is behind them, but film workers say by even introducing the idea costs not only them, but the entire state. Two more bills are targeting the credits and while they won’t repeal…
More than 10 tax credits, including some for film and green energy, could face some changes if a bill brought by Senator Tim Jennings, D-Roswell, passes. While the film credits are just a part of Senate bill 248, it…
New Mexico’s film tax credits survived an all out cut earlier in the session. But now there is another measure headed through the Roundhouse to cap those credits. Senate Bill 235 would cap the credit each production could get…
Albuquerque may be feeling the same deficit pain as every other governing body these days, but the good news is that the city comes out on top in a national list of the “best places to make movies and to…
