Environmentalists want northern New Mexico forest to reverse course on oil and gas drilling (Canadian Business)
Susan Montoya Bryan November 20, 2008 - 12:15 a.m. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) - U.S. Forest Service officials are being asked to reverse a recent decision by the Carson National Forest that environmentalists claim will lead to ramped up energy development in northern New Mexico.

In Mexico a new and frightening cult spreads among the wretched (Guardian Unlimited)
A report from the drug wars in last week's New Yorker (the issue that is not about the parousia) starts with an art exhibition and ends with an account of a grim and spontaneous religion emerging there: On the first day of every month, at the Tepito metro stop in downtown Mexico City, a new breed of pilgrim can be observed inching his way on his knees out of the stop and down a filthy ...

New Mexico Symphony coming to Silver City (The Deming Headlight)
The Grant County Community Concert Association and the Mimbres Region Arts Council are pleased to announce that the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra will be coming to Silver City for a holiday concert on Dec. 10, at 7 p.m. The concert will be held in the WNMU Fine Arts Center Theater.

Eagles rebound, stifle New Mexico in road win (Loveland Reporter-Herald)
RIO RANCHO, N.M. — The instructions were lucid, and the execution was exceptional for the Colorado Eagles on Wednesday night against New Mexico.

Navajo Nation opens its 1st casino in New Mexico (AP via Yahoo! Finance)
The Navajo Nation opened its first casino Wednesday just east of Gallup, N.M., hoping that slot machines, poker and bingo will inject new income into the tribe.