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.
After conducting his own investigation into medical care at one of America’s largest Army bases, Rep. Harry Teague promised to dramatically expand an inquiry into the treatment of soldiers who have suffered mild traumatic brain injuries in Iraq and Afghanistan. In a letter to medical commanders at Fort Bliss, the third-largest Army base in the country, Teague wrote that he had turned up troubling evidence of systemic problems across the military in the treatment of soldiers suffering lingering cognitive difficulties as a result of roadside blasts.
As part of its ongoing coverage of the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, ProPublica reports today that oil companies have paid relatively little in fines to the Minerals Management Service, the agency that regulates offshore oil…
State oil and gas regulators are spread too thin to do their jobs effectively, concludes an investigative piece by ProPublica that compares the degree to which drilling has increased in 22 states with staffing levels at the state agencies…
ProPublica, the nonprofit investigative news organization, has updated a chart that examines how transparent states are with federal stimulus dollars in their respective jurisdictions.
New Mexico gets an underwhelming rating for the website created to keep track of funding…
A process pioneered by Halliburton, called hydraulic fracturing, shoots vast amounts of water, sand and chemicals several miles underground to break apart rock and release the gas. Over the last few years, however, a series of contamination incidents have ignited a debate over whether the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing may threaten the nation’s increasingly precious drinking water supply.
