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 Daily Lobo reports today on how GRIPgate might affect the University of New Mexico, including an interview with Timothy Lowrey, a UNM Faculty Senate member.
Lowrey said it’s unfavorable for UNM to be associated with a federal investigation, regardless of its subject or outcome.
“It may turn out that there are no indictments coming from this, but it’s unfortunate that UNM has to be named in an investigation,” he said. “There could be some indictments as well as loss of money, it seems to me. I hope that’s not the case.”
And of all the parties interested in GRIPgate, here’s one you hadn’t thought of: Toll Roads News, an organization devoted to information about toll roads, turnpikes, toll bridges, toll tunnels and road pricing.
Meanwhile, some conservatives are relishing the way the GRIPgate mess seems to have ensnared mostly Democrats. The blog 46in08 is compiling a list of stories about CDR Financial Products, the financial services company at the heart of the scandal here. It’s impressively long.
Speaking of cranky conservatives, Mario Burgos isn’t pulling any punches today. Writing about Richardson’s support for ethics reform, he says:
Ok, let’s state the obvious first. A Governor who has had to turn down a presidential cabinet appointment and retain a prominent attorney in light of the unethical pay-to-play conduct of his administration, has no business announcing his support for ethics reform.
Along those same lines, remember that Wall Street Journal editorial that said David Iglesias, former U.S. attorney for New Mexico, was fired because he didn’t uncover and prosecute stuff like GRIPgate? Well over at SFReeper.com, Corey Pein is following a rebuttal from Harpers that includes this tidbit from Iglesias:
The Wall Street Journal’s nonsensical editorial tries to argue about matters no longer in controversy. The official DOJ investigation into the U.S. Attorney firings established conclusively that the firings were “fundamentally flawed.” Every reason given for my ouster was reviewed and rejected by the Justice Department’s Inspector General, Glenn Fine, who characterized the proffered reasons as “disingenuous after the fact rationalizations.” If this editorial represents the logical reasoning ability of the board, I have profound doubt as to their ability to understand the utter sanctity of a prosecutor’s independence and integrity.
