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.
U.S. Senator Tom Udall and eight other freshmen today urged Congress to pass health care reform bill. “Maintaining the status quo is the coward’s way out,” Udall said.
New Mexico public schools could be cut by $77 million under a budget-balancing scenario that could be on the table in today’s deficit talks, the Albuquerque Journal is reporting.
The paper reports that Senate Finance Committee Chairman, John…
New Mexico’s Sen. Jeff Bingaman is key to the health care bill before the Senate Finance Committee, according to Roll Call. This morning the Albuquerque Journal’s Michael Coleman gives us a synopsis of the Roll Call story in which the…
“‘We’ the pronoun means: everyone including me.”
So begins the little essay taped up in the hallway outside the Senate Finance Committee, up on the third floor of the Roundhouse. Pointing out the “seriously declining revenues” of the state, the…
