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…
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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.
Two dozen of the State Personnel Office’s 64 full-time employees have BlackBerrys paid for by taxpayers at a cost of more than $2,200 a month, the Santa Fe New Mexican reports. But the smartphones may become casualties of budget cuts, writes Kate Nash of the New Mexican.
From Nash’s story:
This type of expense might be something lawmakers take aim at when they meet in a special session this fall. Legislators need to trim at least $400 million in spending for this fiscal year. Gov. Bill Richardson has proposed cutting $444 million, including 3 percent cuts in all agencies except public schools.
Senate President Pro Tem Tim Jennings, D-Roswell, called the number of phones “excessive.” He added, “State government has to be modern, but I don’t know in an agency of that size that you need to have 28 phones like that. That just seems like an awful lot,” he said.
The department says it did away with the landlines of the people with cell phones, and that the smart phones make employees more accessible.
