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.
With the 2008 election cycle entering its last week, today’s headlines reflect a bit of a slowdown in political activity. On a long-distance phone call, Sen. Hillary Clinton tells The Gallup Independent that Democrat Barack…
The University of New Mexico announced yesterday that Brian Schmidly, son of University of New Mexico President David Schmidly, will not accept a job offer to promote energy conservation at the university. The $94,000 annual salary raised eyebrows among…
Brian Schmidly, son of University of New Mexico President David Schmidly, has backed out of a $94,000 job offer to be “associate director of sustainability” –a position created by his dad last June with the goal to reduce greenhouse…
What with the election hubbub, one might have overlooked a couple of disturbing developments this week related to two of the state’s newspapers.
The Santa Fe New Mexican on Tuesday offered voluntary buyouts to some employees in an effort to…
Climate change, hunger and poverty have yet to earn the presidential-campaign attention they deserve, but on Thursday, they’ll commandeer nearly a full day’s worth of discussion at the University of New Mexico’s Student Union Building.
The Nobel Prize for literature this year has been awarded to a French writer whose name may not be well known in Albuquerque but who may be in the next booth over next time you visit the Frontier Restaurant, enjoying…
