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.
The Google Election Center can help you find information on the 2010 midterm elections. We’ve posted its interactive map that shows your voting location. All you have to do is type in your address and it will provide you with…
Google and Verizon are conducting secret talks and are close to an agreement that might ultimately lead to consumers paying more to receive content over the Internet, the New York Times is reporting.
The agreement, if it happens, might…
Google contributed $41 million in economic activity in New Mexico last year, according to a 62-page report the tech giant released this week.
That number includes more than $500,000 donated to 10 nonprofits and what it says was $40…
Sen.Tom Udall and Rep. Ben Ray Lujan have created a YouTube video in support of a proposal to bring ultra-fast broadband Internet to Farmington. Google is offering ultra-high speed Internet service “at a competitive price” for between 50,000…
Rep. Ben Ray Luján sent a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt backing the city of Farmington’s proposal to bring Google broadband internet to the Four Corners town. Earlier this month, Sen. Tom Udall sent a letter to Schmidt…
Senator Tom Udall today sent a letter to Google CEO Eric Schmidt in support of Think BIG Farmington’s proposal to become a test city for the Google Fiber for Communities project. Google’s project would “test ultra-high speed…
Google has announced a fiber optic trial in which the company plans to test broadband networks in several cities. Government entities can create a case for their communities and individuals can nominate their communities as well.
Thousands of people in Haiti — including the head of the United Nations mission — remained missing in the rubble of collapsed buildings on Wednesday morning, a day after an earthquake ravaged this impoverished nation, the New York Times…
Next door in Arizona, the state’s elected leaders agree making the state’s disintegrating budget whole again won’t be easy, and however they do it will be painful, according to the Arizona Daily Star. What they don’t agree on is…
After 90 minutes of impassioned debate that invoked the sweep of American history, the New Jersey state Senate yesterday voted down a bill to legalize same-sex marriage, the Newark Star-Ledger reports. Gay-rights advocates immediately said they would bring their…
New Mexico certainly isn’t alone in facing potential huge budgetary shortfalls for the year that starts July 1. The state’s budget battle officially began Monday when the Legislature’s budget committee submitted its own proposal for the 2011 budget year…
Missouri officials acknowledged Monday that they reported inflated numbers of food stamp recipients to the federal government, calling into question millions of dollars of bonuses paid to the state for running one of the nation’s top-flight programs, according to the…
The number of people in U.S. prisons has grown at the slowest pace in nearly a decade, according to figures released Tuesday by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, according to the Washington Post. The study also noted that incarceration…
The Colorado secretary of state on Friday approved two measures for the 2010 ballot that would slash at least $1 billion annually in state taxes and roll back property taxes statewide, reports the Denver Post. This comes at a time…
A $5,000-per-ticket “national innovation conference,” hosted by the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and attended by senators including New Mexico’s Jeff Bingaman, is being criticized by a consumer watchdog group that says it gives the appearance of “pay to play.”
“Senators should…
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who has led the charge on bad actors in the investment world, including one or two here in New Mexico, now is going after Intel Corp, which has a big presence in the…
New Mexico relies most heavily on the state gross receipts tax for its revenue — to the tune of 36.1 percent, according to a new report. By comparison, the state income tax comes in third as a revenue generator,…
Here’s a summary of what I’m reading this morning. Every state is swimming under a tide of new applications for food stamps, the federal program that helps the low-income with food purchases. New Mexico isn’t an exception. But one state over, Texas is at risk of losing federal food stamp money due to a high error rate and failure to process applications in a timely manner and. A federal official has suggested the nation’s second most populous state should hire a food stamp czar to correct the significant problems, reports the Austin American-Statesman. More …
