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.
A Native American woman had hoped to renew her health care coverage at the University of New Mexico Hospital last year. Showing up at one office for an appointment, the woman was directed and then re-directed to multiple offices until she was back at the first office where she was told she had missed her appointment and needed to reschedule. “Six weeks later she is in need of medical care but is delaying it because she has not been able to renew her UNM Care coverage,” the authors of the memo wrote. The June 17, 2009 memo opens a small window into the sometime Byzantine world of health care, especially on the insurance – or payment – side at New Mexico’s busiest hospital.
