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 rate hikes planned for individual policy holders of Blue Cross Blue Shield of New Mexico health insurance are on hold pending a public hearing. The hearing was ordered by New Mexico’s Public Regulation Commission after it received “numerous complaints,” the Albuquerque Journal reported today.
Approved by the State Insurance Division and originally scheduled to kick in on April 1, rates are currently planned to increase by 29.5 percent for about 18,000 policy holders and in a lesser amount for a smaller set of policy holders. The increases were justified due to rising medical costs and demographic changes, a representative of the insurance division told the Journal last week.
No word yet on when the public hearing will occur.
