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.
Over a dozen members of “(Un)occupy Albuquerque,” part of the nationwide Occupy Wall Street movement, were arrested last night at the University of New Mexico campus, after the university administration declined to renew a permit allowing the protesters to…
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…
The University of New Mexico and the Native American Studies Indigenous Research Group is hosting a forum for the two candidates running for president of the Navajo Nation. Candidates Ben Shelly and Lynda Lovejoy will be in ballroom…
The good government group Common Cause will honor University of New Mexico political science professor Lonna Atkeson with its Jack Taylor Award at the group’s annual luncheon Saturday, Oct. 16.
Atkeson earned the award for her “outstanding research expanding our…
Sign up now to participate in a series of town hall debates, sponsored by New Mexico First and New Mexico public broadcasters. During October three town halls, one at UNM, one at ENMU and one at NMSU, will each bring…
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…
Louis Caldera, the former University of New Mexico president, is joining the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation in early July as its Vice President of Programs.
Caldera is leaving the Center for American Progress, a public policy think tank headed up…
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…
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.
The University of New Mexico men’s basketball team is having what is arguably its best year ever, and today is the final day of the regular season for the Lobos, when they play Texas Christian University at The Pit.…
Former Governor Gary Johnson will be speaking at UNM this week according to Santa Fe New Mexican reporter Steve Terrell. Terrell, writing on his blog, notes it will be at an event put on by Law Enforcement Against…
UNM students gathered in the Student Union Building on the Columbus Day federal holiday with a clear request for their school’s administration – honor the Indigenous people and cultures of New Mexico by changing the 2nd Monday in October to “Indigenous…
The president of the board of regents at the University of New Mexico will step aside, Gov. Bill Richardson announced in a press release Thursday.
Richardson is hoping that the current board president, Jamie Koch, will be replaced by…
Albuquerque Public Schools so-called in-service days may be getting the ax, reports KOB TV. In an attempt to maximize time students spend in the classroom, lawmakers may be cutting in-service days set aside for professional development. Educators worry that…
CDR, the firm at the heart of New Mexico’s GRIPgate pay-to-play scandal, is also at the center of a nationwide investigation into whether the firm, along with banks, overcharged local governments for its services.
A bill that would abolish the death penalty in New Mexico now faces its toughest hurdle: getting through the Senate Judiciary Committee. Previously, similar bills have died in this committee. Steve Terrell of the Santa Fe New Mexican has more…
Border violence on the rise — in Albuquerque? Apparently so. KRQE reports that men allegedly affiliated with a Mexican drug cartel followed hired drug-runners Danny Baca and Joseph Laycock into Albuquerque after the two men fled with the cartel’s drugs.…
Top brass at the University of New Mexico seem to be bowing a little to the pressure from faculty as well as lawmakers to reign in administrative spending.
President David J. Schmidly announced…
The Daily Lobo reports today on how GRIPgate might affect the University of New Mexico, including an interview with Timothy Lowrey, a UNM Faculty Senate member.
Lowrey said it’s unfavorable for UNM to be associated with a federal
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Hungry for more political discourse?
Lonna Rae Atkeson, a University of New Mexico professor and Regents’ Lecturer who studies the political process, will answer questions about the election and efforts to improve future elections when she delivers a talk…
