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 House of Representatives could vote as early as Friday morning to raise $380 million in new revenue to help close next year’s budgetary shortfall. A half-cent hike in the state gross receipts tax and a 1-percent surtax on the state’s wealthiest residents are in the mixture of tax increases and targeted closure of tax deductions and loopholes. House Speaker Ben Lujan, D-Santa Fe, said Thursday afternoon he thinks he has the votes to push through the tax package.
Gov. Bill Richardson on Thursday said he would order nearly 20,000 state workers to take five furlough days. He also pledged to axe 1,000 vacant state jobs and make cuts at the agencies under his control. But state lawmakers said he could have averted some of the pain by taking action earlier this year.
A possible deal to close this year’s huge budgetary shortfall emerged from a powerful House committee late Wednesday night, but some lawmakers are upset that the bill includes $54 million in cuts from K-12 education.
State prosecutors allege that the payments to Joe Kupfer were part of an elaborate embezzlement and fraud scheme in which Gutierrez, the Kupfers and former Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron stole millions of dollars in federal taxpayer money awarded to Vigil-Giron’s office for voter education.
According to an indictment handed down Wednesday, former New Mexico Secretary of State Rebecca Vigil-Giron fabricated a letter — postdating it Aug 26, 2004 — to help cover up a vast money laundering and embezzlement scheme. The alleged scheme involved Vigil-Giron, a nationally respected Hispanic media consultant and a husband-and-wife team who now lobby for the city of Albuquerque.
Texas-based Aldus Equity, New Mexico’s former investment adviser, appears to have drawn the interest of federal prosecutors, according to two federal subpoenas that have been made public. The subpoenas were released by the Educational Retirement Board Thursday afternoon.
The man who lost to Jerome Block Jr. in November for a seat on the state’s Public Regulation Commission (PRC) said Wednesday that the eight indictments of Block handed down today by a grand jury are a “strike” against him, but the PRC chair says Block is doing “a good job.”
