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 New Mexico Foundation for Open Government — ally to advocates of transparent government, bane of secretive politicans — has a new leader.
Sarah Welch, a 31-year-old ex-newspaper editor in northern New Mexico, was named as FOG’s new executive director earlier today. The release announcing her appointment noted, in brief, the big picture goals she’ll be focusing on:
Secrecy is the soil in which corruption sprouts, and it’s time we stood up and demanded full transparency. It’s also time for us to keep an extra close watch on government spending.
Welsh had worked as an assistant news editor for the Rio Grande Sun, a newspaper based out of Española. She also served as a Peace Corps volunteer in West Africa, according to the release.
She succeeds Leonard DeLayo, the former president of the Albuquerque public school board. Welsh’s first day on the new job is Aug. 28.
