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.
On last Friday’s episode of KNME’s New Mexico in Focus, “The Line” opinion panel discussed a recent case in which three Farmington men were charged with a hate crime after allegedly branding a swastika into the arm of a…
ProPublica, the nonprofit investigative news organization, has updated a chart that examines how transparent states are with federal stimulus dollars in their respective jurisdictions.
New Mexico gets an underwhelming rating for the website created to keep track of funding…
With questions about where a certain South Carolina governor had been for days leading to quite a revelation last week, Albuquerque radio reporter Peter St. Cyr went on the hunt for where our own Gov. Bill Richardson has been.
The…
NMI’s Marjorie Childress writes on her blog today that the killing of Dr. George Tiller amounts to “domestic terrorism, meant to inspire fear among the broader populace.”
There’s also a political dimension, Childress writes.
There’s a lot of buzz on the blogosphere and otherwise about the conservative tea parties — protests and rallies designed to express frustration with the nation’s economic policies. On New Mexico Liberty, Jim Scarantino writes about the “recipe for credible tea parties.”
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.…
KUNM News Director Jim Williams recently sat down with several local reporters to talk over the big stories of 2008. And as you can imagine there was a lot to talk about: Barack Obama‘s huge victory in otherwise purple…
