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.
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.
Before protestors were placed under arrest and escorted by police through the University of New Mexico, they shouted to their future apprehenders “Cops are the 99 percent!” More than a glib rhetorical device aimed at making their voices heard,…
University of New Mexico President David Schmidly will not seek an extension to his contract that expires in 2012, according to the Albuquerque Journal. Schmidly says he will spend more time with his family.
Blaming competing demands like college midterms and the Balloon Fiesta, UNM organizers acknowledged a smaller-than-expected turnout for Sunday’s 10/10/10 “Take the Next Step” climate policy summit.
Despite live reggae and jazz music, and vendors offering pastries and locally-grown organic…
U.S. senators Tom Udall and Jeff Bingaman introduced a bill in Congress to create a “Center of Excellence” research program at the University of New Mexico (UNM) for cavernous angioma.
Cavernous angioma is a rare, genetic brain…
The University of New Mexico Board of Regents has scheduled a closed-to-the-public executive session for its May 25 meeting, to discuss UNM President David J. Schmidly‘s annual performance evaluation.
According to a public notice, “determination” and actions…
How do next-door neighbors that share a history — both were ceded by Mexico to the U.S. in the 19th century — arrive at vastly different conclusions on the same issue? The Independent posed that question to several university professors and got some interesting answers.
New Mexico’s Open Meetings Act is meant to help ensure public involvement and to prevent backroom deals in state and local government, but violations of the law are widespread, an investigation by The Independent has found. School boards, universities, town councils, county and state commissions, and boards across the state have broken the law, casting a shroud of secrecy over government officials’ deliberations and bargaining.
Hundreds of placard-waving Tea Party activists in Albuquerque weren’t sheepish Thursday about sharing ideas on where to trim government fat. Eliminate the federal Department of Education. Reduce foreign aid. Starve the defense budget. Cut back or phase out big domestic spending programs like Medicaid, Medicare and Social Security. They all came up as potential cost-savings measures.
UNM regents will decide Friday whether to increase student fees by about $10 per semester to fund several projects, including a Queer Resource Center. Despite a strong faculty, staff, and student backing of the center, funding for it has become a…
Governor Bill Richardson and First Lady Barbara Richardson will be on hand in Las Vegas to cheer on the University of New Mexico Lobos as they take on the San Diego State Aztecs tonight in the semifinals of the Mountain…
El Centro de la Raza program manager Meriah Heredia Griego says potential repercussions remain, and that the incident raises concerns about student confidentiality, especially for undocumented students.
An Albuquerque activist for religious freedom in the military says he received threatening phone calls in advance of a lecture he was scheduled to give at the University of New Mexico Wednesday. The host of the talk, before an Introduction to Peace Studies class, says he was concerned enough to arrange for security guards to be present.
Concerns are being raised over the University of New Mexico’s recent statement that it will not allow undocumented residents of Bernalillo County to register for UNM Care, its safety-net insurance program for the indigent.
The letter, delivered on August 21, details three issues that the almost 40 signers of the letter think are sufficient to declare “no confidence” in UNM’s administration of the state’s largest public radio station. KUNM has about 175 volunteers who largely run the station’s local programming, with a smaller contingent of paid news employees.
Top-level Obama administration officials in Albuquerque today said they are beefing up the country’s efforts to squeeze the drug flow from Mexico to keep the violent drug cartel turf wars from spilling over onto U.S. soil. All Source Information Center, a.k.a New Mexico’s fusion center, is said to be key to that goal.
“I’ve got a job.”
That’s what Janet Napolitano, head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security – and former governor of Arizona — said to New Mexico press today, according to the Albuquerque Journal. She was replying to rumors that…
Amid the fears of the H1N1 (or “swine”) flu, the University of New Mexico announced today that they are suspending all travel to Mexico.
Though Louis Caldera may — emphasis on the word “may” — soon no longer be employed in Washington D.C., he always has a fall-back option.
A panel tasked with recommending changes to Albuquerque’s city charter sent councilors a message Thursday night: If you want to change how the city regulates election-year activity, do it yourself. That decision came after nearly two hours of debate before the normally sleepy Albuquerque Charter Review Task Force.
