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 Government Restructuring Task Force public input on how to improve state government, the task force’s chairman, Senator Tim Eichenberg, D-Albuquerque, said today. The task force has designed two SurveyMonkey questionnaires—one for state workers and the other for the public — to collect ideas on how to save money and improve state government.
“We think it’s critical to get as many ideas as we can on how to make state government more efficient and effective,” Eichenberg said in a press release. “No one has better ideas about how to do that than the men and women who work each day in the trenches of state agencies and New Mexicans who receive state services. The task force looks forward to hearing directly from those people.”
The task force has met six times and plans to meet through December as it prepares its recommendations. The task force’s meetings are being webcast by the legislature, and information about the task force’s work is available at www.nmlegis.gov.
