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.
The same week that anti-abortion-rights advocates and Catholic colleges pushed the Obama administration to repeal a recent decision to include contraception in a list of fully-covered preventive health-care services, House Republicans unveiled a proposed spending plan for 2012 that…
Planned Parenthood is organizing a rally of abortion rights supporters in Albuquerque this Friday. The rally comes after a controversial anti-abortion rights group, Operation Rescue, moved into Albuquerque and ramped up protests at local clinics.
After Wichita abortion doctor George…
I’m just as surprised as Albuquerque Journal reporter Charlie Eisenhood, who blogged this week about his shock in finding out that the Albuquerque Public Schools doesn’t allow the distribution of condoms or other birth control.
Meanwhile, New Mexico has…
There is the possibility that supporters could convince Congress to change President Obama’s proposed budget to include some funding directly for abstinence-only programs. But New Mexico’s senators and representatives are not likely to champion those efforts.
President Obama’s 2010 budget proposes an end to the era of abstinence-only sex ed in America. If adopted by Congress, his plan would eliminate nearly all federal funding for abstinence-only, and replace it with a $110 million teen pregnancy prevention initiative using “evidence-based” programming.
The federal Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it would allow 17-year-olds to buy emergency contraception pills (called Plan B) over the counter.
CNN’s chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta is President-elect Barack Obama’s choice for surgeon general, The Washington Post is reporting. Gupta, an Atlanta-based neurosurgeon, is said to be interested in the job and he is being vetted now. “I was hoping for Marcus Welby, but if he’s not available, Dr. Gupta’s pretty good!” Dr. Alfredo Vigil, New Mexico’s secretary of health, tells the Independent.
When Bill Richardson leaves the New Mexico governor’s mansion to become U.S. secretary of commerce, his Democratic lieutenant governor, Diane Denish, will take over where he left off. Although the two certainly have different governing styles, their policy…
