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.
The person whose mission was to root out corruption and wrongdoing in Albuquerque’s city government and who seemed to have impressed the mayor’s office and some city council representatives was terminated this week, the Albuquerque Journal reports.
An agency outside the control of the mayor and the city council, Office of Internal Audit and Investigations, gave Albuquerque’s Inspector General (IG) Janet McHard her walking papers this week, according to the paper.
McHard was in her probationary period, Journal reporter Dan McKay tells us. The head of the city’s audits office, Carmen Kavelman, wouldn’t go into details why McHard no longer worked as the city’s IG but said this of McHard, “I don’t think she helped the mission of this office in total.”
Cryptic, isn’t it? We’ve got a mystery on our hands. This is an interesting story, one worth watching to see how it develops.
