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.
State Insurance Superintendent Morris J. “Mo” Chavez resigned Tuesday morning.
“After careful deliberation with my family, I have decided to tender my resignation as Superintendent of Insurance effective close of business today, May 4, 2010,” Chavez said in a two-sentence resignation letter addressed to PRC Commission Chairman David King. “It has been an honor to serve the citizens of New Mexico.”
Chavez had come under fire for approving, without public hearings, a Blue Cross Blue Shield NM individual health insurance rate hike of 24.6 percent. The increase was subsequently reduced to 21.3 percent.
Since Chavez took office in October 2006, he approved several health insurance rate increases, all without public hearings.
Commissioners accepted Chavez’s resignation at 9:45 a.m. Tuesday and immediately appointed Insurance Division Deputy Superintendent Thomas Rushton interim state Insurance Superintendent, Public Regulation Commission Spokesman Gerald Garner told The Independent.
