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.
A previously unknown federal criminal investigation surrounding Gov. Bill Richardson‘s nomination as President Obama’s Commerce Secretary has ended with no criminal indictments, the Albuquerque Journal reports.
The inquiry in question, which reporter investigative reporter Mike Gallagher pieced together by using court documents, focused on whether President Obama’s transition team was misled as to the serious nature of a separate federal criminal inquiry into pay-to-play allegations against the Richardson administration here in New Mexico.
That separate inquiry focused on the relationship between a New Mexico state agency and a California firm that won two state contracts and that had contributed to two nonprofits controlled by Richardson. That separate investigation was ongoing by the time Richardson was nominated and was being vetted for the federal commerce post.
A grand jury is empowered to issue indictments, but in this case the grand jury has ended its term without any indictments related to this inquiry, according to the paper.
