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.
Sign up now to participate in a series of town hall debates, sponsored by New Mexico First and New Mexico public broadcasters. During October three town halls, one at UNM, one at ENMU and one at NMSU, will each bring…
Add another item to New Mexico state lawmakers’ to-do list: Soon they’ll have to take a course on ethics, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports today.
The course is being developed in collaboration with New Mexico State University and…
Speaking at the Domenici Public Policy Conference at New Mexico State University in Las Cruces, Former New Mexico Senator Pete Domenici said the federal deficit is the most important issue facing the country today, according to NMPolitics.net.
Saying the…
Tucked away in windowless room 288 in New Mexico State University‘s Gerald Thomas Hall, a team of 12 open-source intelligence analysts scours news reports, websites, scientific journals and trade data from around the world.
Their work has earned NMSU…
New Mexico’s Open Meetings Act is meant to help ensure public involvement and to prevent backroom deals in state and local government, but violations of the law are widespread, an investigation by The Independent has found. School boards, universities, town councils, county and state commissions, and boards across the state have broken the law, casting a shroud of secrecy over government officials’ deliberations and bargaining.
New Mexico State University’s new president – the school’s 25th – is the first woman to hold the job, at least on a permanent basis.
Waded Cruzado held the job on an interim basis for after Michael Martin left the…
Richard Herman, a finalist for the job of president of New Mexico State University, has withdrawn his name from consideration. Herman recently resigned from his job as chancellor of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign after it was revealed that politically…
The New Mexico State University Board of Regents approved a list of five finalists for the job of president earlier this afternoon.
The 2009 Domenici Public Policy Conference will be held today and Thursday at New Mexico State University, and among the high-profile officials scheduled to speak is U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
The historic Coronado Elementary School is set to reopen in Albuquerque, reports KOAT TV. Built in 1973 and closed in 1975, Coronado will fill its classrooms once again, yet this time with a twist.
The school will use the…
Two bills that would require government agencies in New Mexico to accept requests for public records via e-mail and fax have been approved by the Legislature and sent to the governor for action.
The New Mexico State University Board of Regents on Monday suspended its search for a new president, and plans to start the process over next year when as many as three new regents join the board.
