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 veterans charity under investigation by the New Mexico Attorney General’s office for falsified registration forms is at the center of an emerging political scandal in Virginia.
Virginia’s Republican governor and several state lawmakers received campaign contributions from…
The number of people in U.S. prisons has grown at the slowest pace in nearly a decade, according to figures released Tuesday by the Bureau of Justice Statistics, according to the Washington Post. The study also noted that incarceration…
Some states, struggling to balance their budgets, are selling or leasing public property, including state office buildings, prisons and major toll ways, and Stateline.org has a story that examines the pros and cons of such decisions.
Politico reports that the Washington Post “sells access, $25,000+”.
In what appears to be straight out of a political campaign’s playbook, the Post is arranging what it calls “salons” which “underwriters” can attend.
Held at the home of CEO…
I look forward to the Pulitzers’ announcement each year, mostly to see what stories are honored and if any of my friends wrote them. (It’s happened a few times.)
Yesterday was no different. Learning that the Pulitzers were out,…
In light of Heath Haussamen’s column yesterday about the plight of the newspaper industry, I read with interest a memo posted by Politico.com on the same day. The memo by Washington Post Publisher Katherine Weymouth to the newspaper’s staff…
