Environmentalist coalition aims to swing Senate race (AP) - A coalition of environmental groups is targeting the U.S. Senate race in New Mexico to help swing that seat into the Democratic column. The coalition plans to help Democrat Tom Udall in the race against the winner of the Republican primary, either Steve Pearce or Heather Wilson.
Editor, The world's population was 1 billion in 1850, 2 billion in 1930, 3 billion in 1960, 4 billion in 1974, 5 billion in 1986 and 6 billion in 1999. More than 6 billion of us are alive today, six times as many people now as were living less than 200 years ago.
Editor, Last week, former President Jimmy Carter began a self-appointed diplomacy mission on what he refers to as the road to peace. Carter's private Middle East peace process was criticized by the U.S. administration, and Israeli officials chose not to be included.
Editor, As much as Spring Storm offers an opportunity for students to volunteer their time, it also has negative impacts upon the UNM community. We live in one of the SRCs alongside Johnson Field, and the music from Spring Storm was so loud Saturday that it was impossible to concentrate on schoolwork.
Lisa Loeb has kept busy since her '90s hit "Stay (I Missed You)." After doing a TV show with Dweezil Zappa, appearing in a reality TV dating show, taking writing workshops, releasing albums, running an advice column and starting a foundation to send underprivileged kids to summer camp, she's on tour to promote her latest album, Camp Lisa.
UNM School of Law students and local bicyclists remembered the life of James Quinn during ceremonies Wednesday. Quinn was a law student who was killed Sept. 15 while bicycling on Route 66 in Tijeras Canyon. Mayor Martin Chavez dedicated a bike bridge in Quinn's honor.
For Janale Harris, the music business is not all fun and games. "You turn on MTV, you turn on BET and you see all these shows," he said. "It's no disrespect to any of these shows, because there's a market for it, and that's what happens. But you have a whole generation of aspiring artists that come up and think that that's the business, and it's not the business.
As long as Ken Fincke can remember, he has been making art out of trash. "My granddad was a contractor up in Santa Fe, and he had this huge yard as big as this block that had junk in it," he said. "There was welders and torches and everything imaginable. I was like, 'Grandpa, can I make something?' He was like, 'Yeah, you'll cut yourself and get yelled at by your mom.
Richardson looks to get licenses, leases for spaceport SANTA FE (AP) - Gov. Bill Richardson's administration hopes to secure critical licenses and leases for a planned spaceport in the months ahead, which will clear the way for construction to start. The $200 million spaceport - known as Spaceport America - received a major boost this week when voters in Sierra County approved a tax levy to help pay for construction of the project.
Students, staff and faculty received information about mental health Wednesday outside the SUB for Mental Health Awareness Day. Event coordinator Christine Tally said the most common mental disorders seen at the Student Health Center are depression and anxiety.
Editor, I would like to give a brief response to James Post's letter in Monday's Daily Lobo about how polygamy should be legal to any religious group. I say a loud, resounding no to polygamy. The human being is comprised of three parts: body, soul and spirit.
This three-part series on disabilities concludes Friday Five years ago, Margaret Leicester was cleaning her basement in Taos when a black widow bit her. A week after she was bitten, she suffered a stroke that paralyzed the left side of her body. "It made me deaf in my left ear and took away my eyesight all in one moment," she said.
April 16 A student went the UNM Police Department to report a series of harassing phone messages. She said an unidentified man left the messages on the KUNM phone system. The man accused a KUNM DJ of playing a song that praised the devil. The man said he would punish the DJ and claimed to be a KUNM staff member.
Editor, Christopher Sanchez's article, "Preacher reaches out from an unlikely pulpit," in Monday's Daily Lobo seems too reverent. First, the Rev. Michael Venyah's choice of venue is hardly unlikely, as many people visit campus to preach God's word. One who preached from the exact same spot caused even more of a ruckus.
NEW ORLEANS - Chris Paul had 32 points and a franchise playoff-record 17 assists, leading New Orleans to a 127-103 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Tuesday night that gave the Hornets a 2-0 lead in their first-round series. David West scored 27 points and Peja Stojakovic 22 for New Orleans, which took a double-digit lead in the second quarter, led by as much as 25 in the third and never looked back.
Editor, In Friday's Daily Lobo, Mark D. Erasmus suggests that efforts taken by Muslim students at UNM to introduce a moderate and gentle interpretation of Islam to their non-Muslim peers via free food and open discussion amounted to a dangerous plot by multiculturalists and those Muslim students alike to "equivocate the nature of Islam.
Student Aaron Anderson was diagnosed with Asperger's syndrome, a form of autism, when he was 5. "I suppose there was always the underlying sense that there seems to be something fundamentally different in me," Anderson said. "I always felt somewhat different from my peers.
Editor, An article in Wednesday's Daily Lobo detailed a dormitory association's plight for a lounge space. The space is also one of the many possible future spaces of the Agora Crisis Center. We at Agora felt compelled to make clear some misunderstandings in that article.
Wide receiver Marcus Smith produced one of the most stellar senior seasons in UNM football history. He broke records. He played in the Senior Bowl. He was invited to the 2008 NFL combine and is a likely pick for this weekend's NFL draft. But through it all, the most important part of his success was missing.
Welcome to another edition of "From the Sports Gutter." This week, the topic is NBA Playoffs. The Spurs have been the team of the decade. But with a stacked Western Conference, it will be hard for them to repeat. The Celtics should roll through the Eastern Conference, as long as they don't piss off LeBron James too much.
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