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 state would be responsible for maintaining the state’s more than 1,000 voting tabulators if a Senate bill introduced this session becomes law.
SB 136, sponsored by Sen. Dianna Duran, R-Tularosa, also would direct $350,000 from a state fund to help pay for maintenance of the machines in the months leading up to this year’s elections in November.
The state purchased the voting tabulators from Nebraska-based ES&S, but questions about ownership and maintenance of the machines have persisted. ES&S initially wanted to charge more than $1 million to maintain the machines, but many counties balked at that price tag.
The ownership question has been intertwined with the maintenance question because who owns the machines will assume the costs. Some counties have said that the state owns the machines. The state has said the counties owns them.
This would resolve the maintenance question.
