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.
More than 40 state agencies remain unaudited, in violation of state law that requires every governmental agency to perform annual audits, The Santa Fe New Mexican reports. There is no penalty for noncompliance.
State Auditor Hector Balderas pushed for a law that would have withheld funds from agencies that did not complete their annual audits. The bill failed, but State Rep. Lucky Varela, D-Santa Fe, told the New Mexican that he would again sponsor legislation to withhold state funds from governmental entities that do not complete their annual audits.
Currently, Balderas told The New Mexican, his only recourse is to “let them know that they basically were subjecting their agencies to potential waste, fraud and abuse, or potential takeover.”
The Attorney General’s office said that it can only investigate in cases that the audits have found fraud.
