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.
In an interview with Harold Morgan of the blog Capitol Report, New Mexico’s Democratic nominee for governor Diane Denish talked about the small business she created during the 1990 campaign for Bruce King, and how she would deal with Richardson’s appointees.
The voter contact program was in the pre-robocall days, Denish said, so it entailed a lot of person-to-person contact. Afterward, Denish started her own business, called The Target Group, which did a lot of small donor base-building and research for both nonprofit groups and for-profit corporations.
“…At the end I had three full time,” Denish explained. “At my highest time I had 26 part time employees. Every two weeks. People that needed extra work. Most of them were either moms that went to work after school, in the night, people that were trying to just get extra hours of work.”
As to those friends who currently serve on boards and commissions, Denish said that if elected governor she would “respectfully” expect every one of the current administration’s appointments to submit their resignations. Her real friends would still be her friends if she doesn’t re-appoint them, she said.
“I would submit to you that people that are on all these boards and commissions that have worked very, very hard, eight years is a long time for them,” she said. “That may be their level of service. Long time friendships will endure if they’re friendships, whether you put them on a board or commission or not.”
There’s a lot more, Morgan obligingly transcribed the interview and posted it on his blog.
