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 Associated Press reported something pretty remarkable from Alamogordo — some members of Diane Denish’s transition team are still meeting despite that there looks to be no transition going on. After all, Gov. Bill Richardson is no longer headed to Washington, D.C. as Barack Obama’s secretary of commerce.
Mayor Steve Brockett and First National Bank President Pete Cook will also deliver a pair of speeches at the meeting, where they are expected to talk about serving on Lt. Gov. Diane Denish’s transition team.Brockett is one of 18 people on Denish’s government efficiency and finance committee, while Cook is serving on the economic stability committee.
This raises an obvious question — if there is no transition, can there really be a transition team?
But as the New Mexico Independent noted yesterday, to Denish, such a transition hasn’t been canceled, but merely postponed.
“Gov. Richardson postponed taking a position in the administration to ensure that President Obama and the American people face no delays in getting to work to fix our ailing economy, and the president-elect said he looks forward to Gov. Richardson joining his administration in the days ahead,” Denish said in the statement on Richardson’s withdrawal from the position of secretary of commerce.
This means the transition will, apparently, go on.
Brockett said he learned late Sunday night, via e-mail, that Denish still wanted to continue with the transition meetings.”That was fine with me,” he said. “We already had invested quite a bit of time in it. I was glad to see it continue. The recommendations we’re making is a good start, regardless of who the governor is.”
The group is meeting to make recommendations on how to improve government.
To quote the titular character in “Alice in Wonderland,” Louis Carroll’s famous book, “Curiouser and curiouser!”
