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.
A woman suspected of embezzling millions of dollars from a small Northern New Mexico school district offered to repay the money when confronted this summer, reports the Albuquerque Journal.
Also from the Journal, a decrease in medical services for the poor could be one of the negative effects from the state’s recent decision to cut what it pays medical providers like physicians to care for the state’s low-income population through Medicaid, the government’s health insurance program. More …
Joan Brown, osf, a Franciscan sister and Director of NM Interfaith Power & Light, is blogging from the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen, which is happening Dec. 7-18. She went to Copenhagen with an international delegation of…
Governor Bill Richardson echoed concerns made by sportsmen today about a land swap in the Whites Peak area. The Stanley Ranch is expected to get the land by exchanging 3,300 acres of its land for the 7,000 acres the…
There’s lots going on in the blogosphere today, but much of it has to do with Albuquerque Mayor-elect Richard Berry and the fallout from him resigning his legislative seat days before the special session begins.
A move to “grow” energy is afoot, and Insight New Mexico blogs today about one energy company’s use of algae in Southern New Mexico. That’s just one of the few things going on in the blogosphere today.
Things are starting to heat up in the Albuquerque mayor’s race. Today, former Mayor Jim Baca has a posting telling candidate R.J. Berry that he needs to stop “picking out some segment of the population (immigrants) and blaming them…
At least one state lawmaker who has been involved in attempts to reform the State Land Office is questioning whether an assistant commissioner’s disclosure of a conflict of interest on a 2003 form was sufficient. Several others say the state’s disclosure laws are in need of reform.
John Fleck remembers today something he wrote years ago regarding “what happens when you don’t have health insurance.” He ties it in to an article he wrote examining the same issues that are facing Americans now.
Meanwhile, Mario Burgos…
Last week Gov. Bill Ricardson and U.S. Sen. Tom Udall announced that they’re applying for funds to study the feasibility of creating a high-speed rail line from El Paso to Denver, through Albuquerque. SFReeper.com has an interesting post…
An overreaction? Both Cocoposts and Jim Baca think the U.S. Forest Service needs to “chill out” when it comes to the Rainbow Family meeting in the Santa Fe National Forest this week.
Ray Powell, who was the New Mexico land commissioner from 1993 to 2002, says he will run for the office once again next year. The Democrat made the announcement in response to an e-mail asking if he will enter the race: “The short answer to your question is an enthusiastic YES in 2010!”
It seems that much of the talk on the blogs these days isn’t about Barack Obama’s speech — but about the response given by Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. And the response to the response wasn’t very, well, good.
It’s Friday the 13th. In case you were wondering, the fear of Friday the 13th is Paraskevidekatriaphobia. I can’t find an official name for “fear of bad horror movies.”
Over at Only in New Mexico, former Albuquerque mayor Jim Baca comments today about the environmental review process that all of the Obama-funded stimulus projects will need to go through. Responding to the possibility that the environmental review may…
“I think he has a personal vendetta going with members of the New Mexico Wilderness Alliance and conservationists generally,” says Arturo Sandoval, the man who succeeded Scarantino as chairman of the Coalition for New Mexico Wilderness.
