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 jet fuel leak that has been slowly creeping off Kirtland Airforce Base, and contaminating Albuquerque’s water supply while its at it, is “massive.” So massive that it’s in the Exxon Valdez oil spill category, said Albuquerque Journal science…
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…
In addition to television ads, the controversial oil and coal industry-backed group CO2 is Green also bought a half-page ad in the Albuquerque Journal, notes Journal science writer John Fleck on his ABQJournal blog. But the group…
The Journal’s John Fleck has a story today about the world of water, specifically at the federal Bureau of Reclamation, and how it has changed from decades past. Fleck interviewed Michael Connor, the new head of the Bureau of…
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…
In light of the mini-debate over water between mayoral candidates Martin Chavez and Richard Romero, Albuqueruqe Journal science writer John Fleck reminded us on his blog about an Up Front column he wrote last April that is pretty relevant…
What the global warming deniers have done is to create a political dead space, a vacuum in which global warming gases have soared and technology, legislation and capital have lagged sorely behind despite far thinking companies and governments.
John Fleck of the Albuquerque Journal has an interesting profile of a Sandia National Laboratories engineer who is ascending to the presidency of the American Nuclear Society.
The first step is to admit you have a problem.
“We have deficit spending that we’ve been doing for a long time, and we’ve become fairly addicted to it,” said Bob Wessely.
This is how the Albuquerque Journal’s John Fleck…
Federal officials announced that drought conditions are spreading across New Mexico, according to the Albuquerque Journal’s science/water/global warming writer John Fleck.
He just posted an update using the State Drought Monitor,. which is part of the U.S. Drought Monitor.
over at SFReeper.com Dave Maass has posted the video of a new advertisement against New Mexico’s recent repeal of the death penalty.
On Sunday, Santa Fe County Sheriff Greg Solano wrote again about the influence of the media on the legislative session.
And while we’re on the topic of media talking about media, did you see Albuquerque Journal writer John Fleck’s weekend post about anonymous sources?
John Fleck, the Albuquerque Journal’s science/water/all-around-smart reporter, makes some trenchant observations and asks insightful questions in a post today about Los Alamos’ old plutonium lab.
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.”
Mark Bralley, a photographer and blogger who keeps an eye on politics, has a lengthy but insightful posting on his blog — What’s Wrong With This Picture? — in which he dissects the webcasting debate in the New Mexico…
A small cadre of moderate senators— Democrats and Republicans — gathered last week to cut tens of billions of dollars of spending from the original Senate stimulus bill. The $350 billion in tax cuts were, however, kept intact. A big…
Time to wrangle up the end-of-the week blogs and put them out in today’s edition of the NMI blog roundup.
Democracy for New Mexico takes an extensive look at the reason why ethics legislation doesn’t make it past the Legislature.…
It’s no secret that I’m a fan of Twitter. So are a few other New Mexico reporters. But at least one reporter for the Albuquerque Journal doesn’t really see the point in the microblogging service.
Leslie Linthicum, in the…
The microblogging service Twitter has been growing in stature as a journalism tool around New Mexico, as broadcast reporters, print journalists and of course bloggers have begun covering the state tweet by tweet.
Well, either everybody’s hard at work today or they’re doing absolutely nothing because the blogs have been relatively quiet this morning.
All I really care about is the possibility that it may snow, but Steve Stucker at KOB.com is blogging…
