UNM buys porn website domain names

From KOB-TV.com - It is not your everyday purchase if you are in the marketing department at The University of New Mexico. Three weeks ago the marketing heads purchased two porn website domain names at $200 a pop. You have likely heard of .com’s and .net’s. But have you heard of .xxx? The new extensions are sold for the adult industry. The university purchased www.unm.xxx and www.lobos.xxx to make sure no one uses them inappropriately in the future to link the university to porn. “The use of the domain names is something that concerns us and that's why we purchased them and put them aside," said Dr. Gilbert Gonzales, UNM’s public information officer. Each of the triple x domain names cost UNM $200. “It’s a very good idea, you have to protect the name of the school,” said Patrick Lopez, an electrical engineer major at UNM. In September, Icann, the group that overseas domain name registration started selling .xxx domain names to porn sites. The University of New Mexico took a proactive approach because they were worried the domain names would fall into the wrong hands. There’s not just students, there's people in the community that will use the university affiliation with young people in inappropriate ways. We wanted to limit or restrict it," Gonzales said. When you go to the .xxx UNM websites, a message reads, “This domain has been reserved from registration.” The university said it will keep it that way forever. Using money out of the general fund, UNM plans to buy about a half dozen more UNM related triple x domain names in the next month and a half. Read more

UNM buys porn website domain names

Santa Ana Star Center Losing $3 Million Each Year

From KOAT-TV.com - RIO RANCHO, N.M. -- Target 7 has uncovered that Rio Rancho's Santa Ana Star Center is hemorrhaging massive amounts of money every year. While customers pack The Pit, Tingley Coliseum and the Hard Rock Pavilion, the Santa Ana Star Center continues to struggle. With its current location in Rio Rancho, Target 7 asked a few people in Albuquerque if they would regularly attend events at the struggling facility. "I might. It's just a heck of a long drive," Albuquerque resident Skip Brown said. City leaders said the arena is losing around $3 million in taxpayer money each year. "The goal is to really get as close as possible to breaking equal in that facility," Rio Rancho Mayor Tom Swisstack said. The $47 million facility, which was built in 2006, has already lost two sports franchises. Swisstack said the arena he inherited has a new management team and has started to make some money. But since it continues to sit in an unpopulated part of Rio Rancho, he admits that taxpayers may be on the pricey hook for several more years. Read more

Santa Ana Star Center Losing $3 Million Each Year

Gautsche hits airwaves to defend decision

From the Rio Rancho Observer - BY GARY HERRON - Cole Gautsche, the senior southpaw quarterback who led Cleveland High School to a perfect 13-0 season that ended last Saturday with a 48-28 victory over host Mayfield in the Class 5A championship game, has been taking some heat lately for his decision not to continue his career at New Mexico State University, where he had given a verbal commitment, but rather play closer to home with the University of New Mexico football team next fall. Gautsche, the Gatorade Football Player of the Year in New Mexico, was an in-studio guest Wednesday evening of Rio Ranchoan Bob Brown on his Locker Room Show on ESPN Radio, 101.7-FM. Toward the end of the interview, Gautsche said he wants to someday be a teacher and return to Cleveland, where he'd like to coach. Read more

Gautsche hits airwaves to defend decision

Senator calls for endowment to make NM America's leader in energy research



Tim Keller

From the Alamogordo Daily News - SANTA FE -- A state legislator wants to create a $40 million university endowment to make New Mexico the leader in energy research and technology. The plan's author, Sen. Timothy Keller, said Monday the state must move decisively to establish a sector of business expertise that will strengthen its economy for the long term. "We have to do something like this for economic development, and to make our state more relevant nationally," said Keller, D-Albuquerque. His bill would create the $40 million fund in four years. A total of $835,000 a month would be diverted from gross receipts taxes and funneled to the university endowment. Then New Mexico's research universities would share 5 percent -- or $2 million -- every year from the endowment's investment profits. With the windfall, they would recruit top faculty responsible for research, teaching, development and commercialization of sustainable energy technologies. The schools that would receive the money are New Mexico State University, New Mexico Tech and the University of New Mexico. Their job would be to land the finest professors in the energy field, then give them the tools they need to make commercial and scientific advances. Read more

Senator calls for endowment to make NM America's leader in energy research

Jacobs: Occupy the journey

From NM Politics.net - By Mark Jacobs - Within hours of Occupy Wall Street’s explosion onto Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Livestream, I booked a flight for New York, keeping the promise I made to myself. What was that promise? As the Arab Spring unfolded in early 2011, followed by the uprisings in Europe, I knew in my soul that it was only a matter of time before discontent swept the globe. The consciousness of humanity was shifting before my eyes, so I vowed that when it hit our shores, I would be in the thick of it. The inner journey has been central to my life for 25 years, which has included a rich, open spiritual inquiry. Caught in the wave of arrests during OWS’s first big march through the crowded streets of Manhattan, I realized, sitting in a paddy wagon with a dozen strangers, that my entire inner journey had brought me to this particular moment in time, where my “boots on the ground” would be required to effect change alongside millions of others. Read more

Jacobs: Occupy the journey

A 21st Century Cartoon

A 21st Century Cartoon

More Borrowing Encouraged by NM "Coalition"

A coalition of elected officials, environmentalists and labor unions is urging New Mexico's congressional leaders to throw their support behind the reauthorization of a federally sponsored federal "jobs" bill. According to the group, through additional federal borrowing, millions of dollars of water system improvements might be obtainable for New Mexico.

The coalition released a report Monday indicating that more federal borrowing for water management systems across the country, including those in New Mexico, could lead to billions of dollars of debt and the possibility of temporary employment.

The chairman of the Albuquerque Bernalillo County Water Utility Authority, Art de la Cruz, indicated that the utility had not independently planned for the need of more than $200 million in water treatment upgrades. And according to a story published on the KOB TV website, de la Cruz indicated that the timing for politicizing the decision to borrow money for infrastructure investment was appropriate. 

More Borrowing Encouraged by NM "Coalition"

Wasserman Schultz Can't Admit Rise in Unemployment

Debbie Wasserman Schultz

Fox News - NewsNM note (Spence) DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz is either incredibly uninformed or a shameless liar. When President Obama took office in January of 2009 the nation's unemployment rate stood at 7.8%. As of November it stood at 8.6%. Check out the transcript and video exchange between Gretchen Carlson of Fox News and Wasserman Schultz:
Gretchen Carlson, FOX News: Unemployment has gone up precipitously since he took office.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, DNC Chair: That is simply not true. In fact, unemployment has now dropped below 9%. It's continuing to drop. He's been focused on --
Carlson: It's higher than when they promised the stimulus would lower it to 8%.
Wasserman Schultz: You see, that narrative doesn't work for you anymore, though, because --
Carlson: It's not my narrative. I'm just talking about facts.
Wasserman Schultz: You just said the unemployment rate is going up since Obama took office, and it hasn't.
Carlson: Is unemployment higher since President Obama took office?
Wasserman Schultz: What's happened since President Obama took office --
Carlson: Is unemployment higher than when he took office?
Wasserman Schultz: Unemployment is nearing right around where it was when President Obama took office and it's dropping. You just said it's been increasing and that's not true.
Watch video here: News New Mexico

Wasserman Schultz Can't Admit Rise in Unemployment

Obama to Cut Border Security

Washington Times - Blaming budget cuts, the Obama administration early next year will cut the number of National Guard troops patrolling the U.S.-Mexico border by at least half, according to a congressman who was briefed on the plan. The National Guard said an announcement will be made by the White House “in the near future,” but Rep. Duncan Hunter, a California Republican who has learned of the plans, said slashing the deployment in half is the minimum number, and he said it will mean reshuffling the remaining troops along the nearly 2,000-mile border. In California, that will mean going from 264 Guard troops down to just 14, he said. Read full story here: News New Mexico

Obama to Cut Border Security

Land of the Envious and Home of the Victim

Star Parker

Townhall - President Obama laid out his vision of America in Osawatomie, Kansas. We are no longer, in our president’s take on things, land of the free and home of the brave. America now is land of the envious and home of the victim. We are a land, as our president explains it, where the success of one American comes at the expense of another. Where the poor are poor because the rich are rich. And where the role of government is not to ensure “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” but to tax away wealth from those it deems to have too much and determine how to invest our nation’s resources. The president chose to give this speech in Osawatomie because President Theodore Roosevelt, a Republican, spoke there in 1910 and made a plea for more government in American life. How clever. But in 1910 the federal government was extracting less than five cents from every dollar produced by the American economy.

It was not until the 1930’s, except for the period of World War I, that this doubled to 10 cents of every dollar. After World War II, this doubled again to 20 cents. Now, after three years under President Obama’s vision, the federal government takes 25 cents of every dollar produced by the American economy. If we throw in the costs of state and local government, barely 50 cents of each dollar of our economic output remains in the private economy.  But President Obama thinks we’re languishing because we’re still too free. The idea that “the market will take care of everything” may look good on a “bumper sticker” according to our president, but, in his words, the idea of free citizens and free markets “…doesn’t work” and “…never worked.”
Perhaps our president ought to wake from his dream, and our nightmare, and take a closer look at the country he is living in. Read full column here: News New Mexico

Land of the Envious and Home of the Victim