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.
New Mexico Attorney General Gary King announced today that he joined a coalition of 19 state attorneys general in sending a letter to AIG CEO Edward Liddy that demands the names of those who received retention bonuses from the embattled insurance agency.
The attorneys general also want a list of those persons involved with negotiating the compensation contracts, copies of board minute and copies of any correspondence to shareholders from September 2008 to the present regarding the financial health of AIG. The American government owns most of the company after buying shares through bailouts.
New Jersey Attorney General Anne Milgram led the effort and was joined by King and attorneys general from Arizona, Delaware, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Michigan, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Washington and West Virginia.
The letter asks for AIG to forward the information within five days.
