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.
The Coalition for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans honored Congressman Harry Teague for his work on veterans issues this week. The freshman Democrat from southern New Mexico sits on the Coalition for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans.
New Mexico Assistant Attorney General Elizabeth Korsmo has ordered the U.S. Navy Veterans Association charity to stop fundraising in New Mexico, the St. Petersburg Times reported today. The paper’s investigative series on the charity found that telemarketers and fund-raising companies hired by the group keep up to 90 percent of the money raised from donors, and that most of the organization’s offices around the nation are little more than mail drops. The group’s members, officers and auditors could not be found by reporters.
The New Mexico chapter is listed as donating $132,506 in food, shelter, clothing, direct cash assistance and medical and dental care to indigent veterans and families in New Mexico, according to IRS records obtained by The Independent. However, no details are offered about where exactly the money and donations were spent, or what hospitals or health clinics were paid. More …
A Colorado legislator wants to amend a medical marijuana licensing bill to allow any military veteran suffering from post traumatic stress disorder to use the drug after obtaining a recommendation from a psychiatrist. In offering the amendment to Colorado House…
The largest group of patients enrolled in New Mexico’s medical marijuana program are those who suffer from post traumatic stress disorder, or PTSD, according to the most recent New Mexico Department of Health data. But Albuquerque’s Veteran’s Administration hospital–which many veterans rely on as their only source of health care–doesn’t allow its physicians to recommend the use of marijuana to patients.
Gov. Bill Richardson will be in Las Cruces on Friday to sign a bill that would create a state veteran’s museum and establish Las Cruces as its home.
Gov. Bill Richardson once again has an opportunity to make Las Cruces the home of a planned state veteran’s museum, and he’s likely to do so this time.
A letter that U.S. Rep. Ben Ray Luján signed onto with 67 other members of Congress appears to have helped move the White House to quash a controversial veterans’ health care proposal.
New Mexico Democrat Tom Udall introduced his first amendment as a U.S. senator, and it passed unanimously. The amendment, to the economic stimulus package, would expand tax incentives to employers hiring veterans who have served since September 2001.
