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.
While budget problems continue to confound New Mexico, other states do seem to have it worse. California is one of the hardest-hit, according to a Pew Center on the States report called “Beyond California: States in Fiscal Peril.”
The report…
The fact is, our government cannot go on spending money at the rate it has been. Politicians of both parties have in the past defended deficit spending because, “We can grow our way out of the deficit.” Oh, really? So what happens when the economy contracts — as it is doing now — instead of expands?
New Mexico’s Congressmen from northern and and southern New Mexico signed onto a letter with 18 other freshman Democrats asking U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi to amend the way that health care reform will be funded.
As the Obama administration and the Congress approach consensus on a health care reform, they must agree on how to pay for it. Of course, the political right, protective of the status quo rages against taxes. And many liberals, afraid to rile the electorate, won’t defend them.
I got a second mailer from SunCal Corporation promoting TIDDs this week, and it seems that just about everyone I know in Albuquerque and Bernalillo County did as well. This direct-mail promotional effort must have cost SunCal a bundle.…
Businesses in the Mexican border city of Juarez not only are closing and cutting back hours because of a steep drop in tourism, but say they are also being forced out of businesses because they are paying extortion money to…
The nonpartisan truth factory known as Factcheck.org is as good a place as any to get your Wednesday night debate-watching detectors in gear. (It’s also a decent tool for setting some ground rules for a debate-watching drinking game, but the New Mexico Independent isn’t outright endorsing such potentially irresponsible behavior.)
In a recent conversation, my dad summed up the current financial crisis better than I could have: We’re trying to figure out how to engineer a controlled crash landing instead of allowing an all-out nosedive into the ground. I believe he’s right. The situation is that serious.
