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 has a stake in the increasingly heated debate over allowing a Canadian petroleum firm to build a pipeline across the Great Plains to the Gulf of Mexico: table water.
Here’s a bright spot in the otherwise grim fiscal picture most states, including New Mexico, have found themselves in — the state will have more than $360 million in new revenues for the upcoming fiscal year, according to a report released yesterday to the Legislative Finance Committee.
The Wall Street Journal reports on the battle over the dunes sagebrush lizard inhabiting Southeast New Mexico and West Texas, which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering putting on the Endangered Species List:
Just a week after a deadly pipeline blast in California, officials from Mountainair were disappointed to find PRC commissioners reluctant to approve what they had expected to be a routine regulatory waiver.
“There’s this pattern of companies doing something but not doing enough, not taking things seriously enough,” Commissioner Marks said. “It’s not that they don’t care. The problem is that the responses aren’t sufficiently large, given the scale of the dangers.”
The chances of Jeff Bingaman’s “energy only” bill passing the Senate aren’t very good, according to The New York Times. The bill, the Times says, has bipartisan support but also bipartisan opposition, a rarity in this hyper-partisan Congress.
It was an argument that went back and forth when oil prices reached heights of above $140 a barrel. Was it a result of supply and demand or speculation on the part of investors?
Tom Udall, while running for U.S.…
UPDATE: Perhaps the only bright side to the ongoing meltdown on Wall Street and other global financial markets is the steady decline in oil prices. Gas prices have been sliding down toward $3 a gallon, and in Albuquerque on…
