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.
I hope that the sort of NIMBYism that foils so many public works projects doesn’t rear its ugly, selfish head this time, because a new I-25 exit at Richards Avenue is really a necessity.
You can listen to Congressman Ben Ray Luján, D-New Mexico, talk health care reform in an interview with the Santa Fe Reporter. You can get the embedded version over at SFReeper, or just download the mp3 .
More than two dozen state lawmakers have stepped into a fray over whether churches, nonprofits and the such can help generate renewable energy, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports today.
After saying last week that she would not release the results of blood alcohol tests on Scott Owens, the 28-year old man involved in a car crash that killed four teenagers, First Judicial District Attorney Spence Pacheco today changed…
Yesterday, the New Mexico Rail Runner Express celebrated a significant milestone: Its two-millionth rider.
The Rail Runner began in 2006 between Belen and Bernalillo and has since expanded to Santa Fe as well.
Santa Fe’s Alvord Elementary affair illustrates, in microcosm, exactly what is wrong with contemporary American society. It is the triumph of feelings over facts and fiscal responsibility. It is a refusal to look at the big picture and see the greater good, and to make necessary sacrifices for that greater good. It is selfishness as social policy.
Though much of the attention so far has been on the Albuquerque municipal elections, New Mexico’s state capital is also holding a mayoral election. And incumbent Mayor David Coss filed today in the Santa Fe city clerk’s office…
The issue of anonymous comments sometimes keeps me up at night, battling between my (all-American!) love for free speech and my personal annoyance at people who spew hate while hiding behind screen names.
Okay, so Don Diego de Vargas and his men hitched their horses and burros in a dusty and lawnless plaza. Manicured grass isn’t historically correct. It isn’t xeriscape. It may be green, but it isn’t green. But let’s face facts. It is very, very tourist-friendly.
Actor and possible 2010 gubernatorial candidate Val Kilmer is putting his entire 6,000-acre ranch up for sale, according to the Wall Street Journal. The ranch includes a 5,600 square foot, four bedroom home, two guest houses, miles of trout…
With his sardonic humor, scathing wit, and uncannily high intelligence, Eric Treisman touched many lives as a most untypical lawyer.
Santa Fe-based Thornburg Mortgage will declare bankruptcy and go out of business, according to a statement from the company. The troubled mortgage firm “intends to commence an orderly sale or liquidation of its remaining assets.”
As SFReeper commented,…
The College of Santa Fe, which did not receive the reprieve that students and faculty wished for during the legislative session, may be in danger of closing before the semester ends in May.
And if that happens, many students…
The Santa Fe mortgage firm Thornburg Mortgage may soon be filing for bankruptcy, according to Reuters, via SFReeper.
The Santa Fe Reporter, which runs SFReeper, reported that Thornburg Mortgage had until March 16 to pay back $4…
With the Rail Runner Express making its way up to Santa Fe for nearly two weeks now, it looks increasingly clear that the service is a hit — and that more parking is needed. The stories range from a…
John Fleck from the Albuquerque Journal tells us (subscription required), “No need for fantasies of an Irving Berlin holiday this year in New Mexico.” Why? Well, he’s the guy who wrote “White Christmas” and a white Christmas may be…
John Fleck took a look at the possibility of a White Christmas here in New Mexico according to yesterday’s National Weather Service (NWS) forecast. Christmas, as you may know, is Thursday.
So what does the NWS forecast today…
If you look out your window and you live in either central or northern New Mexico, you probably see snow. And that snow is causing trouble throughout the state.
Gov. Bill Richardson ordered state offices to close early — at…
Travelers will be able to ride the Rail Runner Express to Santa Fe starting Dec. 17.
In a press release, Gov. Bill Richardson announced that he, state, local and tribal officials will make the inaugural ride from Albuquerque to…
The Legislature’s watchdog committee is saying New Mexico has overpaid insurers by $200 million, a contention the state disputes. Santa Fe officials are set to kick off a major annexation effort to extend the City Different’s city limits.…
