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 the days leading up to today’s general election, Secretary of State Mary Herrera took care of some unfinished business. Her spokesman said late last week that Herrera entered into a contract for vote tabulator repairs and issued administrative rules regarding how to restore a felon’s right to vote as well as setting up alternative American Indian vote sites.
The Independent noted in a story published in September that Herrera had not issued the rules, which was a cause of concern for several local election officials. Administrative rules guide local election officials in carrying out duties uniformly across the state so as to avoid treating any one voter differently than another.
The Independent story also noted that a contract to repair broken voting tabulators had lapsed and there was uncertainty whether the state would have an agreement for repairs by Election Day. Herrera’s spokesman James Flores said last week that the state had entered an agreement that would provide such repairs if the need arises.
That contract for repairs is different from an agreement for preventative maintenance of the state’s voting tabulators that many counties balked at because of the price. Nebraska-based ES&S, which sold the tabulators to New Mexico in 2006, wanted what many county officials considered too much money to provide preventative maintenance on the machines.
