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.
Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s name may be synonymous with corruption for some people these days. After all, U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has accused Blagojevich of trying to sell the U.S. Senate seat being vacated by President-elect Barack Obama to the highest seller.
Gov. Bill Richardson, meanwhile, is himself feeling a little heat these days after withdrawing as Obama’s commerce secretary and news that the feds are questioning some close aides in a corruption investigation.
What, other than scandals, do the two governors have in common? Well, Richardson’s re-election campaign gave $20,000 to Friends of Blagojevich on Nov. 6, 2006. You can find it on page 365 (pdf) of the governor’s Dec. 7, 2006 campaign finance report. It’s a 434-page report. It’s in the expenditures section of the report.
Bet Gov. Richardson wishes he could take that one back.
