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.
According to a project by the National Institute on Money in State Politics, just “3.2 percent of the 3,285 recipients of ARRA-related contracts were also donors to state-level political campaigns during the 2008 and 2009 election cycles.” In New Mexico, 7.9 percent of the 89 recipients of contracts related to the recovery program were donors to state-level political campaigns in 2008 and 2009.
“While we did not find a huge overlap of contributors and recipients of contracts, this information provides a necessary baseline as the country debates potential future economic stimulus bills and projects,” said Edwin Bender, executive director of the Institute.
In New Mexico, seven contractors who made a total of $58,600 in 2008 and 2009 received $10,681,243 in contracts from the Recovery Act.
The largest amount of money in recovery contracts of the firms that donated money to candidates in New Mexico were two contracts totaling $4,698,038 to CH2M Hill, Inc. CH2M gave $10,000 to gubernatorial candidate, and Lt. Governor, Diane Denish, D-Hobbs.
Santo Domingo Pueblo donated $32,500 to Democratic Senate candidates in 2008 — both of whom lost in their respective primaries — and received a $373,874 Recovery Act project.
