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.
At Friday night’s closing plenary, delegates to the United Nation’s climate talks emphasized compromise and balance. Afterwards, they returned to meetings, and in the early morning hours on Saturday, agreed to continue discussions next year on the Kyoto Protocol’s second commitment period and the design of a Green Climate Fund and the creation of low-carbon development plans by industrialized nations.
After the “COP 16″ talks in Cancún end today, the public should anticipate that US officials will pin blame for the failed negotiations on Bolivia’s President Evo Morales. That’s despite the fact that in almost 20 years of talks, the US has never agreed to legally binding cuts in carbon emissions.
Indigenous people are the world’s poorest, and “suffer alarming conditions in all countries,” according to a United Nations report released yesterday. Indigenous people make up 5 percent of the world population, but constitute 15 percent of the world’s poor…
Some states, struggling to balance their budgets, are selling or leasing public property, including state office buildings, prisons and major toll ways, and Stateline.org has a story that examines the pros and cons of such decisions.
New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo, who has led the charge on bad actors in the investment world, including one or two here in New Mexico, now is going after Intel Corp, which has a big presence in the…
Americans are just now coming to grips with the idea of bailing out Wall Street to the tune of nearly $1 trillion. The experts say it’s necessary to protect the country and perhaps the world from an economic apocalypse. But…
