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The New Mexico Independent going forward

By | 11.16.11

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…

EIB hears more anti-cap-and-trade testimony

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By | 11.10.11

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…

New Mexico’s largest university low in popularity

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By | 11.10.11

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.

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Obama chooses Dr. Regina Benjamin to be the next U.S. Surgeon General

By | 07.13.09 | 10:00 am

President Obama has announced today that he has chosen an Alabama family doctor — and a black woman — to be the next Surgeon General of the United States.

Benjamin’s small clinic was destroyed by Hurricane Katrina in 2005,…

New Mexicans like the idea of Gupta as nation’s top doc

By | 01.09.09 | 8:02 am

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.