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.
Nearly $1 million in federal stimulus dollars will go toward the purchase and delivery of “desperately needed emergency food” for New Mexicans, Gov. Bill Richardson announced today.
The New Mexico Association of Food Banks will use $775,000 of the $950,000 in federal dollars to purchase fresh produce and “other staples, such as beans, peanut butter and canned products,” according to a news release issued by Richardson’s office.
The remaining $175,000 will be spent on delivering the purchased food staples to six agency food banks around New Mexico that will then distribute the food to more than 650 charitable agencies in every New Mexico county, the release said. More …
Almost 40,000 New Mexicans look for help in getting enough to eat each week, according to a study by the New Mexico Association of Food Banks and an organization called Feeding America. Forty percent of the folks getting help are children under the age of 18; 13 percent are elderly. That sobering data about hunger comes as the Legislature is debating whether to make cuts in the state budget or to raise enough tax revenue to keep state programs and services at their current funding level.
