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.
New Mexico’s Eastern Plains could see a second Dust Bowl caused by climate change, USA Today reported Friday. Oklahoma state climatologist Gary McManus is warning that changing precipitation patterns caused by climate change could be “catastrophic” for northeastern New…
Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., commended Secretary of Interior Ken Salazar for the drilling proposal that would allow offshore drilling along the Atlantic coastline, the eastern Gulf of Mexico and the north coast of Alaska. Bingaman is…
President Barack Obama will be meeting today with a group of top Senators—including Sen. Jeff Bingaman—to discuss energy and climate legislation, according to The Hill.
Ray Rivera is an Albuquerque native who recently turned 30. Following two years on Barack Obama’s grueling but ultimately triumphant presidential campaign, Rivera promptly moved to Washington, D.C., and is now arguably New Mexico’s highest ranking presidential appointee.
If there is one issue that is important in New Mexico as well as the rest of the West, it is water.
And now a native New Mexican, Michael L. Connor, has been tapped by Barack Obama to lead the…
The Los Angeles Times is reporting that Sen. Jeff Bingaman wasn’t informed of President-elect Barack Obama’s choices for secretary of interior or secretary of energy before they were made public.
Bingaman is the chairman of the Senate Energy…
A sampling of New Mexico environmental leaders cites a wide range of what they consider the biggest issues for the year that was. They include Tax Increment Development Districts, the proposed Desert Rock power plant, river otters, the destruction wrought by all-terrain vehicles in national forests and a new law allowing concealed weapons in national parks. But mostly they wanted to talk politics. Like everyone else, environmentalists were consumed by the 2008 elections and the sea change coming to the Legislature, Congress and the White House.
Contrary to media reports that Sen. Ken Salazar — who was nominated today for secretary of the interior — is a friend to industry and a foe to the environmental movement in the West, some conservationists say he’s the right man for the job.
Another New Mexican has joined Gov. Bill Richardson on the list of people being mentioned for possible cabinet-level appointments in Barack Obama’s administration.
Former state Attorney General Patricia Madrid is on the short list for…
