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.
Democratic Lt. Gov. Diane Denish and Republican Susana Martinez this week told nmpolitics.net what changes they’d like to see in how New Mexico manages and administers services to the affected population.
Behavioral health is a complex, below-the-radar subject that most folks don’t follow closely until problems arise. And problems have arisen of late for New Mexico’s behavioral health system.
Currently New Mexico has a Behavioral Health Collaborative, a multi-agency coalition, that has as its goal the streamlining how services for the mentally ill and those struggling with substance abuse are paid for and administered. It’s an innovative approach that other states are following, state officials have said.
But the collaborative has run into a few problems in the past year, including, most prominently, thousands of tardy payments to nonprofits and companies that provide the on-the-ground services by Optum Health, a contractor that took over the state’s four-year $1 billion contract to manage the system last year. Those problems appear to have been addressed, but not before the hubbub caused the state to briefly consider opening up the contract, in part, to get a diferent company managing the system.
