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.
In addition to New Mexico’s congressional delegation, a Ciudad Juarez taco vendor is glad to see the U.S. government ramp up security on the border.
A growing number of New Mexico dairies are going out of business due to plummeting milk prices, KOAT reports. There’s a 2 percent excess supply because of reduced demand in the export market. It really is a global recession.
Ciudad Juárez is getting 3,000 more army troops, the Las Cruces Sun-News reports, in an attempt to prevent drug cartels from completely taking over that city, if not Mexico itself.
Within two weeks, 8,000 anti-drug cartel combatants —…
President Bush made a surprise visit to Iraq on Sunday and ended up dodging shoes rather than bullets. At a news conference with Iraqi media, a journalist threw two shoes at Bush, yelling with the first that it was…
Businesses in the Mexican border city of Juarez not only are closing and cutting back hours because of a steep drop in tourism, but say they are also being forced out of businesses because they are paying extortion money to…
Tourism is dead in the once-popular Mexican border town of Juárez.
That’s the pronouncement of a story put together by the Las Cruces Sun-News and Associated Press summarizing the uncontrolled violence that has killed more than 1,100 people this…
In national news, Congress is scheduled to vote today or tonight on a revised Wall Street rescue/bailout plan. NMI’s Heath Haussamen has details about the NM delegations deliberations here. According to the Washington Post, “Leaders of the Senate,…
