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.
Court records for cases that did not result in a conviction will remain public record, the New Mexico Supreme Court decided on Thursday. An advisory board had recommended that courts not keep records from cases in which defendants were acquitted or charges were dropped. But The New Mexico Foundation for Open Government and other government watchdog groups argued that the public has a right to see all records, not just those that result in a conviction.
“In the end, the Court took a well-reasoned, conservative approach. They declined to control the dissemination of public information, and sided instead with transparency and accuracy,” NM FOG President Sarah Welsh wrote in a posting on the group’s website.
