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 Attorney General’s Office violated the state procurement code in 2009 when paying out $9,300 in registration fees for a training seminar on animal cruelty laws without signing a contract first, the Associated Press is reporting.
Attorney General Gary King, re-elected to a second four-year term last week, told the Associated Press that there was “nothing inappropriate about the spending but acknowledged an accounting problem and special circumstances prompted the issue.”
State agencies must secure a contract for purchases over $5,000 by regulation. Independent auditors from a firm hired by the state Auditor’s Office expressed concern that without a properly executed contract, there was potential for payment of unauthorized expenses, the news service reported.
King told the Associated Press that his office didn’t know until too late that the registration fees would cost more than $5,000, which is why there wasn’t a contract.
