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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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Federal campaign to target meth in Indian Country

By | 04.23.10 | 8:37 am

New Mexico Secretary of New Mexico Indian Affairs Alvin Warren will hold a press conference April 28 at the All Indian Pueblo Cultural Center in Albuquerque to launch the first national anti-methamphetamine advertising campaign aimed at Indian Country. More …

Did Conan really buy prize New Mexico race horse?

By | 01.25.10 | 8:47 am

Conan O’Brien and NBC went through a nasty separation in recent weeks, and in O’Brien’s second-to-last show, a New Mexico race horse that won the Kentucky Derby was brought into the fray. Or was it?

O’Brien claimed that the…

Richardson wants some of Schwarzenegger’s milkshake, says L.A. Times

By | 07.17.09 | 9:41 pm

Bill Richardson Official PhotoGov. Bill Richardson, as Trip Jennings noted Wednesday, was recently in Los Angeles, California meeting with Hollywood producers to help entice them to film more TV shows in New Mexico.

This led the Los Angeles Times to report,…

Is Albuquerque ready for the DTV switch?

By | 06.11.09 | 2:15 pm

Starting tomorrow, if you don’t have a digital converter box for your old TV, you won’t be able to get over-the-air TV anymore.

According to Nielsen Media research, the Albuquerque/Santa Fe isn’t that prepared for the switchover compared to other…

Watching fast food ads makes kids fat, study says (Duh! says everyone else)

By | 11.21.08 | 11:34 am

Childhood obesity is a national epidemic—and fast food ads aimed at kids arent helping, the study sayd.

Banning fast-food commercials on kids’ TV shows would reduce childhood obesity by 18 percent says a study published this month in the University of Chicago’s Journal of Law & Economics. According to the study, 23 percent of the…