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.
Not all students have the means or good fortune of attending a four-year institution. To that end, community colleges are a place of learning ideal for individuals on tight budgets in search of more academic opportunities.
The New Mexico Mortgage Finance Authority was one of 34 organizations in 27 states to receive funding this week to develop or expand training centers charged with providing green job training for local workers in energy efficiency retrofitting,…
States may make hundreds of important decisions about the way its residents are taken care of once Congress is finished with health care reform legislation, the Washington Post reports. Besides the opt-out choice, proposed last week by Sen.…
On a warm Saturday afternoon about 100 conservationists, government officials and concerned citizens gathered at Central New Mexico Community College’s Smith-Brasher Hall for a town hall meeting on clean energy and the economy.
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.”
A package of green jobs bills before the Legislature could be key to how New Mexico uses federal stimulus money. The final federal package provides potentially $1.15 billion for green jobs training, in a larger $113.5 billion package to stimulate a clean energy economy.
Officials of Albuquerque Public Schools have removed peanut butter from the menu after news of a recall and a salmonella scare, The Albuquerque Journal reports.
Meanwhile The New Mexico Business Weekly says that Intel may cut as many…
John McCain and Barack Obama agree that global warming is man-made, and both want to find a way to reverse its course. That urge dovetails nicely with fixing the economy, and long-term job losses. One solution to job loss that both point to is the creation of new jobs from a large investment in alternative and renewable energy production here at home.
