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The New Mexico Independent going forward

By | 11.16.11

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…

EIB hears more anti-cap-and-trade testimony

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By | 11.10.11

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…

New Mexico’s largest university low in popularity

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By | 11.10.11

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.

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Medical marijuana has broad support, Pew research shows

By | 04.02.10 | 3:29 pm

Almost 75 percent of Americans support legalizing marijuana for medicinal purposes, according to a national survey conducted by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. The number in support of general marijuana legalization is much smaller although…

Pew: NM budget problems could be much worse

By | 11.12.09 | 6:33 am

While budget problems continue to confound New Mexico, other states do seem to have it worse. California is one of the hardest-hit, according to a Pew Center on the States report called “Beyond California: States in Fiscal Peril.”

The report…

U.S. to Bush: Don’t let the screen door smack you in the *#%

By | 01.07.09 | 8:59 am

 

In all the madness of GRIPgate, we barely had time yesterday to look over a new report from the Pew Research Center. The report compares public opinion from surveys done eight years ago, just after George W. Bush’s…