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 Division of Insurance isn’t the only Public Regulation Commission (PRC) agency being targeted for potential changes.
The Government Restructuring Task Force, a panel researching how to make state government more efficient, has several scenarios before it…
A group tasked with brainstorming how to restructure New Mexico state government could recommend removing the Division of Insurance out from under the Public Regulation Commission (PRC), a move touted as a way to increase efficiency. But the potential change has left some wondering if the idea is political fallout from the agency’s recent decision to approve a health insurer’s request for a rate increase, an outcome that led to a tempest of protests, the resignation of the then-Insurance Superintendent and the insurance division reconsidering the request, a move that has been challenged in court by the insurer.
Citing a 2008 study of New Mexico’s film industry subsidies, Los Angeles Times business columnist Michael Hiltzik Friday questioned California’s own $100 million-a-year tax credits for Hollywood film productions, calling them “corporate welfare.”
The study showed that New Mexico saw…
