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.
Funding for Sandia and Los Alamos National Laboratories helped New Mexico bring in more federal dollars per person than all but four other states, federal databases show for fiscal year 2009. Only Alaska, Hawaii, Maryland and Virgina received more money…
U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-N.M., visited the Gulf Coast yesterday to survey the damage done by an oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. He also praised the work New Mexico’s labs are doing to help.
Former Sandia Laboratory…
If you’ve heard repeatedly that New Mexico relies on government spending to prop up its economy, but like me wondered what that looks like exactly, here’s some data to fill in the picture.
According to the Consolidated Federal Funds…
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That was the sound that accompanied the collective slap against the forehead from the nation’s national security community when news came out Tuesday that a 266-page report laying out details of the nation’s network of nuclear sites and programs…
The feds are looking to transfer New Mexico’s national labs from the Department of Energy to the Pentagon, reports the Santa Fe New Mexican.
Criticism mounted Wednesday against the plan as New Mexico’s congressional delegation vowed to fight such…
Hantavirus has taken the life of a 22-year-old Otero County woman. Meanwhile, a 36-year-old lawyer accused of killing a pedestrian in Santa Fe and then fleeing the scene initially told police he hadn’t been drinking.
In Albuquerque, a…
