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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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NM state prison population grew in 2009, bucking national trend

By | 03.17.10 | 10:05 am

For the first time in 38 years the combined population of prisoners in state prisons has declined. New Mexico was not one of the states that contributed to that decline, though, with a 2.8 percent increase in its state prison…

NM has something to cheer about. It’s a national leader in children’s dental care

By | 02.23.10 | 11:00 am

New Mexico has fewer dentists per capita than all but one state, and one in five of its residents is uninsured, but the state still managed to rank as one of six national leaders in the area of dental care for its children, according to a new report by the Pew Center on the States. More …

Yes, N.M.’s budget woes are bad. But pain is relative.

By | 11.27.09 | 12:01 am

With impending service cuts, taxes sure to increase and a cash-short state road fund, life in New Mexico might seem, well, not so enchanting. But it turns out pain is relative. You’re lucky you don’t live in Arizona, Nevada or California.