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.
Gov. Bill Richardson spent just under $139,000 for dinners and receptions at the Governor’s Mansion last year, The Associated Press reports today. Among the thousands of guests entertained: movie stars George Clooney and Robert Duvall.
The money to entertain at the Governor’s mansion comes from a state discretionary fund. And spending from that fund was up 63 percent from 2007, when the governor campaigned for the Democratic presidential nomination and traveled extensively outside of New Mexico, the AP reported.
The Associated Press requested records on the fund’s expenditures, which totaled $138,925 in 2008, according to a report it obtained as a result of the records request. Spending had dropped to $85,197 in 2007 from $109,486 in 2006.
The only restriction in state law on the so-called contingency fund is that expenditures must be “for purposes connected with obligations of the office” of governor, the AP reported.
