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.
If you haven’t checked out the letter former New Mexico Senate President Pro Tem Manny Aragon has written to a federal judge seeking leniency in the imposing of fines and restitution for his role in the Bernalillo County Metropolitan Courthouse scandal, you should.
Also interesting are the letters a number of high-profile New Mexicans — including current Senate President Pro Tem Tim Jennings and Archbishop Michael J. Sheehan — who wrote in support of Aragon’s plea for leniency.
You can check out the letters by clicking here, and the Albuquerque Journal’s article on the letters here.
Aragon pleaded guilty in October to three felony counts of conspiracy and mail fraud. He was accused of pocketing more than $600,000 in the scheme in which prosecutors say he and several others stole $4.2 million in taxpayer money by inflating and falsifying invoices during construction of the courthouse.
