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.
As Republicans and the Obama administration seek cuts to the Pell Grant system, a new federal tracking system shows that student loan defaults are on the rise. For students who began repaying their loans in 2008, 13.8 percent have since defaulted. For-profit institutions had 25 percent of their graduates defaulting after three years, while public four-year colleges had 10.8 percent of their graduates defaulting after three years.
The U.S. House voted Thursday afternoon “to eliminate billions of dollars in federal subsidies to private insurers offering low-rate student loans.” All three New Mexico Representatives, all Democrats, voted for the student loan reform bill.
